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.
