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Born on the Bayou

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by Victoria Sams in Uncategorized

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No, we are not in the world Creedence Clearwater Revival sang about. You might find the disparate worlds of The City and The Bayou, as imagined by British theatre company 1927, seem more like the hybrid visions of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton set to the music of Kurt Weill. This show was pure wicked joy. I wish it would linger in DC for longer, but if you hurry, you can catch the final weekend of The Animals and Children Took to the Streets at Studio Theatre, before it takes off to other streets.   Here’s an article about the company founders and their quirky vision: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-1927s-weird-animals-and-children-took-to-the-streets-a-parallel-yet-familiar-world/2012/06/26/gJQA6ySP5V_story.html

And here’s a taste of the show in a trailer produced by Melbourne’s delectably-named Malthouse Theatre and the British Council: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ROpUF4ra8

I am already looking forward to future visits to DC by 1927.

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Victoria Sams

Avid playgoer and tracker of theatre history. Fan of pub theatres. Bookstore addict and lover of satirical writing. Perpetually fascinated by questions of translation. Happily back in my hometown of DC bearing fruits of past lives as writer, professor of modern drama and postcolonial studies, EFL teacher, editor, peripatetic scholar of (mis)fortune and more. Happy news (for some) is that my book, Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage (Peter Lang, 2014) is now discounted to affordability. Other work includes an edited volume: The Random House Treasury of Poems About Cities Around the World (2004).

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