London Theatre Award Nomination Suzanne Andrade: ‘[on The Animals and Children Took To the Streets] .. conjures a world so complete it feels as if you've fallen down a rabbit hole...the appeal is in its restrained malevolent tastefulness, but this is much more than an ingenious exercise in style. This is our world held up to the looking glass so that we can read the backwards writing on the wall.’

The Guardian: ‘...a world so complete it feels as if you've fallen down a rabbit hole...the appeal is in its restrained malevolent tastefulness, but this is much more than an ingenious exercise in style. This is our world held up to the looking glass so that we can read the backwards writing on the wall.’

Not bad for the second show from a five year-old theatre company, 1927, that is made up of just four people.  Suzanne Andrade, the company’s grand dame, says her inspiration comes from “stuff that’s got a bit of a twist or a dark edge... some of it is inspired by growing up in a lovely village where everything’s very beautiful on the surface, but, if you scratch beneath that, everything’s more sinister than it might first appear.”

Described by The Financial Times as ‘a perfect show’, ‘The Animals and Children Took to the Streets’ is an explosion of creativity, weaving a compelling and bittersweet, surrealist parable about inner-city fears and class wars with visual storytelling, high-octane graphics and music, a dash of Gothicism and delicious avant-garde styling. It shakes up the theatre landscape, pushing boundaries, smashing assumptions and leaving the audience in a paradoxical state of euphoria and shame.

Suzanne Andrade is a playwright , director and performer.