1927 is a

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company, based in Margate, Kent, England. It produces and performs mixed-media live animation theatre.

History

Inspired by a love of silent film and animation, 1927 was established in 2005 by animator and illustrator Paul Barritt and writer and performer Suzanne Andrade, together with performer Esme Appleton, composer and pianist Lillian Henley, and producer Jo Crowley. Its productions combine performance, live music, animation, and film. 1927's first production was ''Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' at the

Battersea Arts Centre The Battersea Arts Centre ("BAC") is a performance space specialising in theatre productions. Located near Clapham Junction railway station in Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, it was formerly Battersea Town Hall. It is a Grade ...

in London and the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007. At the Edinburgh Fringe it won a '' Scotsman'' Fringe First Award, the '' Herald'' Angel Award, the Total Theatre Award for Best Emerging Company, and the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. 1927 is the trading name of 1927 Productions Limited.

Productions

*''Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' (2007). *''The Animals & Children Took to the Streets'' (2010), first performed at the

Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architec ...

. *''The Magic Flute'' (2012), first performed at the Komische Oper, Berlin. ''The Magic Flute'' was a re-imagining of

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's comedy, written in collaboration with Barrie Kosky, Artistic Director of the Komische Oper Berlin. *''Golem'' (2014), first performed at the Harrogate Theatre. *''Petrushka & L'enfant et les sortilèges'' (2017) first performed at the Komische Oper, Berlin. ''Petrushka & L'enfant et les sortilèges'' is a large-scale double bill of

Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century clas ...

’s ballet '' Petruskha'' and Ravel's opera '' L'enfant et les sortilèges''. *''Roots'' (2019) first performed at the Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina.

Audio

*''Decameron Nights'', an audio performance based on the stage show ''Roots'', broadcast on

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(2020). The name Decameron Nights refers to

Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was somet ...

's '' The Decameron'', written in response to the

Black Death The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causi ...

of 1348.

References

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