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Please Right Back

Please Right Back

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Award-winning company 1927 combines fantastical animations with bold storytelling to tell the wild adventures of the mysterious Mr E.

Award-winning company 1927 returns to the International Festival with their new production, following acclaimed Festival performances Roots and The Magic Flute.

Combining handcrafted animation and bold storytelling, Please right back sweeps audiences into a magical, mischievous world, inspired by the writer-director's own childhood.

When Kim and Davey’s dad, Mr E, disappears, letters become his only means of communication. Imagination takes over as Mr E writes to his children to tell a creative version of traumatic events. Reality collides with fantasy, as we travel on a fast-paced journey through his wild adventure stories. Mr E’s letters are staged using song, dance, and absurd, subversive animations, as his stories become a kind of game between him and his children – a cathartic release in the face of distress.

Please right back explores the difficulties children go through when a parent leaves the family, while celebrating the power of the imagination to overcome hardship.

The Warm Up: Please right back

Writer and Director Suzanne Andrade and Animator Paul Barritt share their inspiration, creative process and pre-performance rituals for Please Right Back, a story about the power of imagination to help navigate difficult times.

The Warm Up: Please right back

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a poetic, visually stunning and surprising evening

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    Programme

    A keepsake freesheet is available at the venue for this performance.

    Performed byChardae Phillips, Jenny Wills, Lara Cowin, Stefan Davis Voice of Davey Patrick Copley
    Voice of Davey Patrick Copley

    Suzanne Andrade Writer
    Suzanne Andrade     & Esme Appleton    Directors
    Paul Barritt Film, Animation & Design
    Esme Appleton     Co-Director
    Laurence Owen     Music & Sound Design
    Sarah Munro     Costume Design & Construction
    Ben Francombe, Andreas Karlaganis     & Shelley Hastings Dramaturgy
    George Rennison AV Operator
    Chris Prosho Sound Mixer
    Nathan Johnson Production Manager

    Will Close Rehearsal Associate
    Max Gallagher  Music Transcription
    Amber Cooper-Davies Animation Assistant
    Shaun Prickimage Animation Programming Support
    Fin MacNeil Rehearsal AV Op Support

    Wigs adapted by Charlie Watkins
    Set (screens) built by Matt Fish, Martin Goddard & Danielle Williamson
    Emma Corck Prop Maker

    Marketing (Social Media) Glass Eye
    BREAD AND BUTTER PR Press
    Katrina Wesseling Associate Producer
    Jo Crowley Producer

    Additional recorded voice:
    Finn West, Hazel Bailey, Jude Rushforth, Karl Mengs, Lettie West, Suzanne Andrade & Teddy Hicks

    Green Screen performers: The cast & Adelaide Banks, Fin MacNeil, Manuel Asali, Mike Grundmann, Orlando Lawrence, Vanessa Lawrence & Will Close

    Workshop process performers: Will Close, Shamira Turner, Rose Robinson, Ursula Lansley-Early, Lara Cowin, Rowena Lennon, Anna Spearpoint, Kate Stokes & Kenny Cumino

    Thanks to: Leann Young, Lydia Hibbert, Anne Barritt, Melanie Bouvet, ARK, Fevered Sleep, Ani & the team at Oxford House and the Gulbenkian Arts Centre.

    Please right backis a 1927 & Burgtheater Vienna Co-production

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