The Pact: A creation out of desperation
As a part of internal assessment, we were given a chance to pick a chapter from George Orwell's novella Animal Farm and create a short play based on it. Our group selected chapter 8 where the Battle of the Windmill takes place. We decided to take a historical outlook on it. This chapter was quite a crammed one with a lot of historical implications so, we focused on the main one- the pact with humans and its similarity to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. I was skeptical when I took the role of script writer but to my surprise I enjoyed the research I did and the script I wrote. Even though we forgot a lot of lines and turned it into an improv on stage, the sleepless night created the first script I have written and I sincerely hope you enjoy it. Molotov- Ribbentrop pact Characters Narrator Vyacheslav Molotov - Foreign minister of Soviet Union Joachim von Ribbentrop – Reich Minister of foreign affairs Joseph Stalin- Prime minister of Soviet Union Winston Churchill- Prime m...