A farm is taken over by its overworker, mistreated animals. with flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned- a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

The Coronado Theatre Department is proud to be a student designed and student run program. Whether designing the set, creating the blueprints, building, lighting, designing and implementing audio, costuming, running publicity, or stage managing, the Technical Theatre class is busy engineering a complete production. In keeping with a student run program, all shows are open auditions available to the entire student body. 

In addition to our main stage productions, Coronado Advanced Acting Honors class produces a One Act and AA Showcase, Thespian Troupe #3397 produces 4 Cougar Coffee Houses- including the Francisco Awards, and classes write and perform original scripts, perform one acts & a night of improv, compete in Tech Olympics and much more!

Past CTD credits include: The Hallelujah Girls, The Stinky Cheese Man, And Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Chicago: Teen Edition, Done to Death, A Christmas Carol, Don’t Drink the Water, The Wizard of Oz, The Cover of Life, Identity Play/Who Am I This Time?, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Curious Savage, The Seussification of Romeo & Juliet, Twelve Angry Jurors, Urinetown: The Musical, Tartuffe, Peter/Wendy, Once Upon a Mattress, Almost, Maine, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, and Will & Whimsy.