Cornwall Film Festival presents 1927
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets
7.30pm, Thursday 3rd November & Friday 4th November
A co-presentation with the Tolmen Centre, Constantine, Cornwall
Trust no one! Suspect even your own 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, for those who live east of the city, where the bankers make big bucks?
Seamlessly synchronizing live music, performance and storytelling with stunning films and brilliant animation, this is the wickedly twisted new tale from 1927, 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 invites you on a theatrical journey of startling originality.
‘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... 1927
conjures a world so complete it feels as if you've fallen down a rabbit hole’ ‘a really astonishing piece of work from 1927.’ The Guardian
‘The new show from the macabre, musically ingenious and graphically glorious company called 1927...Anyone interested in the theatre should see this company now.’ The Observer
‘It’s a rare treat for a theatre lover to discover a show that’s quite like anything she’s experienced
before and adore it unreservedly from the start. Such was the glorious sensation that company 1927 gave
me, with its outstanding blend of animation, original music and quirky storytelling in 70 nigh-on perfect
minutes...A huge hit beckons.’ The Evening Standard *****
Tickets are £10 and £8 concession, available from the Tolmen Centre box office: 01326 341353
