{"id":1161,"date":"2017-12-06T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1161"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:27:59","slug":"andrade-suzanne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1161","title":{"rendered":"Andrade, Suzanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Andrade is best known for her writing and directing work for her independent theatre company 1927, in collaboration with co-founder and co-artistic director <a href=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1782\">Paul Barritt<\/a>, performer Esme Appleton and composer\/pianist Lillian Henley. 1927&#8217;s trade-mark style integrates performance, music and animation. Upon graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University, Andrade was commissioned by the BBC to write a full-length play for the West Yorkshire Playhouse. She entered and won several small-scale standup comedy competitions before moving to London and establishing herself as one of the most sought-after performance poets on the circuit, appearing on Radio 3 (<i>Mixing It, The Verb<\/i>).\u00a0She began working with <a href=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1782\">Paul Barritt<\/a> to develop several small-scale shows involving her poetry and his projections, eventually performing as part of a literary cabaret in the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe.<\/p>\n<p>The troupe&#8217;s breakthrough performance in 2007 was <i>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea <\/i>(Edinburgh Festival Fringe), which won five awards. Andrade also wrote and directed<i> The Animals and Children Took to the Streets<\/i> (2010) and <i>Golem<\/i> (2014), which were equally successful in touring. <i>Golem,<\/i> co-produced at the Young Vic with the Salzburg Festival and Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Ville, Paris, is a version of the mythical Jewish figure. 1927&#8217;s version of Mozart&#8217;s <i>The Magic Flute <\/i>was directed by Barrie Kosky, at Komische Oper Berlin in 2012. Suzanne Andrade recently featured alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1782\">Paul Barritt<\/a> in the <i>Progress 1000<\/i>, a list of the 1000 most influential people in London, and in <i>The Stage <\/i><em>100<\/em> list of the most influential people in UK Theatre. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.19-27.co.uk\/\">www.19-27.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Andrade is best known for her writing and directing work for her independent theatre company 1927, in collaboration with co-founder and co-artistic director Paul Barritt, performer Esme Appleton and composer\/pianist Lillian Henley. 1927&#8217;s trade-mark style integrates performance, music and animation. Upon graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University, Andrade was commissioned by the BBC to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1161\/revisions\/2556"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}