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Sifa 2025: The Finger Players’ gruesome Animal Farm features 13 life-size puppet beasts
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(From left) Performers and puppeteers Yazid Jalil, Jo Kwek and Tan Rui Shan are part of The Finger Players' Animal Farm.
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SINGAPORE – “All animals are equal” – so goes one of the famed seven commandments in English novelist George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm, after a group of animals rebel against their human farmer to create a free and equal society.
But speak to puppet designer and lead puppet-maker Loo An Ni and she will tell you that is not true. While making the 13 puppets – from pigs to hens to donkeys – one puppet made her job especially difficult.
