GOLEM Adds New Tour Dates

With newly added dates including in the UK and Europe, award-winning theatre company 1927's Golem continues to challenge and satirise our misuse of technology. The new dates include two performances in Margate, where 1927 is now based. The company opened a studio in the town last year which it will use to create animation for future shows, run participatory and host talent development activities. The shows on 4-5 October will mark the first time 1927 has performed in its new home town. Other UK tour dates added are in Doncaster, Liverpool and Southampton.

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.

This week, it was announced that 1927 would join Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Speaking about the announcement, 1927's producer Jo Crowley said "It's been a decade since we premiered our first show, and this 4-year investment will help us grow a vital backbone of infrastructure, allowing us to plan further ahead, take even more artistic risks, introduce Creative Learning Activities, extend 1927's digital offer and vitally support us to develop new 1927's productions and reach even more people."

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, the US and France. 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 a second production opens at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dusseldorf in March 2018.

1927 is an award-winning Margate & 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).

http://www.19-27.co.uk

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