On April 23, I attended the COS Theatre Department’s production of Animal Farm, which was a quirky satire adapted by Chris Mangels. Set in a rural area known initially as “Manor Farm”, all of the livestock are unhappy with the oppression they receive from Mr. Jones, their human farm owner. The animals then revolt against Jones in a mob and drive him out of the farm, letting them be self sufficient and self governed. They call their movement “animalism”, in which all animals were equal and had a handful of moral based laws to follow. The farm is now known as Animal Farm. The pigs, who are noted as the most intelligent of animals, come into a dispute about how Animal Farm should operate and who should lead the animals. Napoleon, a “practical pig” eventually becomes a tyrant amongst his fellow animals and leads the community using harsh methods, warping the concept of animalism that was originally established into something that was virtually completely unrecognizable. Napoleon comes into contact with and then forms alliances with humans. At the end of the play, the pigs and the humans both took off their masks during a fight, and it was announced by the narrator that the animals looked at both the pigs and the people, and could not tell them apart.