Film
Slapstick Gala 2019
- Director
- Various
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 120 mins
The Slapstick Festival‘s big annual gala shifts to the Hippodrome and moves back a month as a consequence of the Colston Hall’s closure. Its centrepiece this year is a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 classic Modern Times, accompanied live by the 40-piece Bristol Ensemble playing Chaplin’s own score for the film. This will be conducted by Guenter A Buchwald.
The Slapstick gala also features pre-show entertainment by students of the Circomedia circus-theatre school; screenings, with music, of Bacon Grabbers (1929), starring Laurel & Hardy, and Buster Keaton’s The Scarecrow (1924); and comedy magic from John Archer – the first act on Jonathan Ross’s Penn and Teller: More Fool Us series to perform a trick that left the duo baffled. Go here for tickets.
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