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The Animals and Children Took to the Streets
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1927, the creative team behind the extraordinary and internationally acclaimed Golem, have come up with another stunning mixture of theatre, poetry, film, animation and song in this sinister tale.
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is set in a dystopian world where the outcasts of society, banished to Redherring Street, live in the rotting tenement Bayou Mansion alongside an assortment of misfits — perverts, peeping Toms, gangsters and Wayne the racist.
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