1927's GOLEM to Embark on UK Tour

Following performances at the Young Vic, the West End and an extensive international tour, multi award-winning theatre company 1927's Golem returns, continuing to challenge and satirise our misuse of technology with a tour of the UK, Europe & Asia.

Mixing live performance and music with film and animation, Golem follows the life of extraordinarily ordinary RoBert Robertson, whose life is irrevocably disrupted when he buys a golem - a creature who will improve the efficiency of his daily affairs. But when Robert upgrades to Golem 2.0, the show asks what happens when man is no longer in control of machine.

Eerily relevant to our tech-obsessed world, Golem is directed and written by Suzanne Andrade, with film, animation and design by Paul Barritt - who jointly won Best Designer at the 2015 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for the production.

Seamlessly synchronizing live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and animation, Golem is the fourth show from 1927 and had its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival in August 2014. Following a two month sold-out and extended season at the Young Vic, followed by West End transfer it has since toured extensively, visiting Taiwan, France, China, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Australia and the United States. In 2015, Golem won a Critics Circle Award for its design and a Knights of Illumination Award.

Confirmed 2017 performances will take place at Theatre Royal Plymouth, Bristol Old Vic, #PULSE17 (Ipswich), Oxford Playhouse and HarroGate Theatre, as well as Denmark's ILT Festival and South Korea's LG Arts Centre. Additional UK & International Touring May - December 2017 is to be announced soon.

Elsewhere, 1927's The Magic Flute, co created with Komische Oper Berlin, has become the most successful show in the Komische's history with over 200 performances worldwide to date. This year, the production has seasons in Germany, Poland, Moscow and the US. 1927's most recent large scale work - a double bill of Ravel's opera L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, in which circus artists replace ballet dancers, premiered to much acclaim in January 2017 and runs in repertoire at Komische Oper, Berlin, until early 2018, before touring.

1927 is an award-winning London-based company that specialises in combining performance and live music with animation and film to create magical filmic theatre. Founded in 2005 by co-artistic directors Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt, the five-strong Company also includes associate artist Esme Appleton, composer Lillian Henley and producer Jo Crowley. 1927 is based in Margate and London and became an Associate Company of the Roundhouse and HOME Manchester in 2016. Previous productions include The Animals and Children Took to the Streets (Sydney Opera House, National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre); Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Battersea Arts Centre); The Magic Flute (Komische Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, LA Opera, Minnesota Opera); The Krazy Kat Project (Ensemble Musikfabrik); Petrushka & L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Komisch Oper Berlin).

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