The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is a genre-smashing piece from British company 1927. A mix of performance, live music, animation, and film; the play is part silent film, part Edward Gorey retro-Victoriana, and a sold-out sensation the world over. Coming to Studio on its US premiere tour, Animals and Children has inspired descriptive calisthenics from critics trying to capture the particular alchemy of influences that gives the show its undisputed appeal.
“Think Alexander Rodchenko meets Tim Burton, Charles Dickens meets Fritz Lang, and the early 20th-century silent movie meets the 21st-century graphic novel, and you have something of the flavour of this jaw-droppingly clever and gloriously subversive parable of social mobility, revolution and its suppression.” —The Guardian
“An outstanding blend of animation, original music and quirky storytelling in 70 nigh on perfect minutes.” —The Evening Standard
“Junk-shop Weimar agit-cabaret, comic-strip silent movie noir as rewritten with the cruelty of Roald Dahl and sound-tracked by cut-glass parlor room piano ditties.” —The Herald
“1927 have once again conjured up a night of unique theatrical magic out of a potent combination of deadpan grotesquery and vaudevillian flair.” —What’s On Stage
“Grown-ups into cinema, twisted animation, and immersive storytelling theatre will love it.” —Sun Herald
1927 Theatre Company
1927 specializes in combining storytelling, live performance, and music with animation and film as a means of exploring innovative ways of telling stories. 1927 endeavors to reinvent old idioms: silent film, music hall song, fairy tales, and cabaret to tell tales about contemporary issues for a modern audience.
Synopsis
Trust no one!
Suspect even your shadow!
Welcome to the Bayou, a part of the city feared and loathed wherein lies the infamous Bayou Mansions; a sprawling stinking tenement block, where curtain-twitchers and peeping-toms live side by side, and the wolf... is always at the door.
When Agnes Eaves and her daughter arrive late one night, does it signal hope in this hopeless place, or has the real horror only just begun?
Seamlessly synchronizing live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and animation, this is the wickedly twisted new tale from the multiple award-winning company behind the international hit Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Like a giant novel burst into life, 1927 invite you on a theatrical journey of startling originality