Distorted image of a man being lifted by a graphic hand on an abstract background

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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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 AppletonDirectors
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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