If you are itching to shake off the cloying over-sentimentality of the festive season and are ready to embrace some anarchic retro-futurism; get yourself down to The Old Market for 1927’s surreal post-modern fable Golem.

Golem is a stunning symbiosis of contemporary commentary, artistic expression and immaculate technology.

Merging layer upon layer of projected animation with live performance, a foot-tapping musical score and a rich visual aesthetic; this slick modern production splices its parsimonious cautionary analysis of social and technological developments and brilliantly juxtaposes it all with an idealised vintage veneer.

If that sounds dull and preachy don’t worry – the show is anything but.

With zippy unpredictable dialogue, bizarre costumes and an assembly of the quirkiest characters ever; it’s cool, fresh, funny and bonkers. Brilliantly bonkers.

1927 make brave risk-taking exciting theatre, ambitious with form but reassuringly matched with superb content.

Golem their latest show has proved once again that they are world class writers, devisers, musicians, story-tellers and technicians, both the company and Golem as a show are destined for great things.

Go see them at The Old Market now and become part of their future, their “bright, colourful, high-definition” future.

Golem is smashing.

Five Stars