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| Slapstick 2014 weekend passes now on sale |
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 For anyone who has been waiting to buy the weekend passes for Slapstick 2014 (which include admission to all the festival events, including the ones in which Tim, Graeme, and Bill are participating), they finally have gone on sale from the Colston Hall box office. Here are details from an email sent by the festival this morning:
"Good news, everyone! Weekend passes for the next Slapstick Festival are now on sale at Colston Hall's box office.
As you probably know, Festival Passes grant access to all of the events taking place in during the weekend of January 24th to 26th -except Saturday’s Cinekids show for youngsters- and offer generous savings to those who want to catch everything.
For details about the passes (and to order one) go to http://www.colstonhall.org/shows/silent-comedy-gala/ , scroll down halfway and look on the right hand side. The passes are priced at £145.13p including all booking fees. Premium seats have been reserved for pass holders for all events so although many gala tickets have already been sold you'll be guaranteed a great seat if you buy a pass anytime in the run up to the festival.
If you already have tickets for Friday nights ever-brilliant Gala (hosted this year by Omid Djalili and featuring a 39-piece orchestra playing Chaplin’s own score live to Charlie’s best-loved ‘Little Tramp’ film, CITY LIGHTS (1931) (see still above)) there is an option to order a lower price Festival pass which excludes the gala. However this needs to be done either over the phone or in person at Colston Hall.
As well as booking online purchase options for the pass include calling Colston Hall's Box Office on 0844 887 1500, or visiting the venue at 1 Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR.
The full programme for Slapstick Festival 2014 can be read at our website: slapstick.org.uk ."
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Posted by lisa at 18/12/2013 20:41 GMT |
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| Graeme on "Pointless" on BBC One December 14, 2013 |
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For viewers in the UK, Graeme Garden will be appearing in the show "Pointless" on BBC One on Saturday, 14th December at 17:50.
Here's an episode summary: "Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a special celebrity academic edition of the general knowledge quiz in which four teams try to come up with the answers that no-one else could think of. Featuring Clemency Burton-Hill and Graeme Garden, Dan Snow and Susie Dent, Robert Peston and Steph McGovern, and Michael Mosley and Germaine Greer."
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Posted by lisa at 09/12/2013 23:42 GMT |
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| 2014 ISIHAC Stage Tour |
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The "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" team will be doing another tour this year - this is the "best of" version of the show (as opposed to recordings for the BBC Radio show). A list of tour dates can be found on the official ISIHAC website at http://www.isihac.net/tour_dates.php?r=-32
Here's a cut & paste from that page:
Forthcoming ISIHAC Tour Dates
2014
* 18th January: Brighton Dome
Show starts 2.30pm (finishes around 5pm) and 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £23.00 and £26.00. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 01273 709709, or online via the theatre’s website at www.brightondome.org
* 19th January: Reading Hexagon
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced at £25.00. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 0118 960 6060, or online via the theatre’s website at www.readingarts.com/thehexagon
*20th January: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £23.50 and £27.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 029 2063 6464, or online via the theatre’s website at www.wmc.org.uk
*30th January: Kings Theatre, Glasgow
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £21.50 and £26.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 0844 871 7648, or online via the theatre’s website at www.atgtickets.com
* 11th February: Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £23.50 and £25.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box office, telephone: 01323 412000, or online via the theatre’s website at www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
* 13th February: Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £23.50 and £27.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 020 8688 9291, or online via the theatre’s website at www.fairfield.co.uk
* 25th February: Newcastle City Hall
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £20.00 and £25.00. Tickets are obtainable via the Box office, telephone: 0191 277 8030, or online via the theatre’s website at www.newcastlecityhall.org
* 31st March: Sheffield City Hall
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £20.00 and £25.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box office, telephone: 0114 278 9789, or online via the theatre’s website at www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk
* 1st April: Palace Theatre, Manchester
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £21.50 and £26.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 0844 871 3019, or online via the theatre’s website at www.atgtickets.com
* 17th May: Colston Hall, Bristol
Shows start 2.30pm and 7.30pm (finish at around 5pm and 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced at £25.00. Tickets are obtainable via the Box Office, telephone: 0844 887 1500, or online via the theatre’s website at www.colstonhall.org
* 19th May: New Wimbledon Theatre
Show starts 2.30pm (finishes around 5pm) and 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £21.50 and £26.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box office, telephone: 0844 871 7646, or online via the theatre’s website at www.atgtickets.com
* 2nd June: Leeds Grand Theare
Show starts 7.30pm (finishes at around 10pm). Tickets are currently on sale, priced between £23.50 and £27.50. Tickets are obtainable via the Box office, telephone: 0844 848 2700, or online via the theatre’s website at www.leedsgrandtheatre.com
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Posted by lisa at 07/12/2013 00:33 GMT |
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| all three Goodies to participate in Slapstick 2014 festival in Bristol, England |
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 The Slapstick 2014 festival schedule has been announced, and we're pleased to see that all three Goodies will be participating again this year. The full schedule of events for the festival (which will be held January 24-26, 2014 in Bristol, England) on can be found at http://www.slapstick.org.uk/events - here are some highlights for Goodies fans.
1. Lost Keaton Goodies
With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden & Serge Bromberg
SAT 25 JAN 1630hrs Bristol Old Vic £15.00
Tim, Bill & Graeme were one of UK’s funniest and most successful TV comedy teams of the 70s. Huge admirers of Buster Keaton the boys have been inspired recently by the discovery of 6 minutes of completely lost and unseen footage from a newly discovered version of his comedy well known comedy short The Blacksmith (1922). Appearing alongside the inimitable Serge Bromberg (Lobster Films, Paris) the boys will delight audiences with the UK premiere of unseen Keaton extracts and the world premiere of The Gorilla Man (1950) in this Lobster Films/Slapstick Festival co-production. A unique event for Keaton fans everywhere.
2. Lost Clowns: Max Davidson’s Best Comedy Shorts
With Graeme Garden
SUN 26 JAN 1000hrs Watershed £8.00/£6.50
Max Davidson (1875-1950) was a German actor who specialised in playing the henpecked Jewish family father. At the peak of his career in 1927 he was given his own series of two reeler comedies, when he was signed to the Hal Roach studios for a series of Jewish comedies which belong to the best and funniest shorts the studio ever produced. The character Davidson played was a fish out of water, struggling to adjust to mainstream America, and his comedy grew out of the gulf between his old world manners and the new world that his children were born into. Graeme Garden selects his favourite Davidson silent shorts to reveal Max at his brightest and funniest.
3. Harry Hill’s Top Comedy Moments
SUN 26 JAN 1600hrs Bristol Old Vic £15
We are delighted to welcome award winning comedian Harry Hill to Slapstick Festival as he chooses his top visual comedy films in this annual Slapstick sell-out show. Showing favourite clips and discussing his comic influences, Harry will be in conversation onstage with I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue star and Goodie Graeme Garden. A rare insight into the comic influences of the master of surrealist comedy as he reveals his top comedy moments to delight and entertain. A guaranteed highlight of the festival!
and for those who are also I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue fans:
4. Safety Last (1923):
Colin Sell “On the Piano”, Introduced by Barry Cryer
SUN 26 JAN 1400hrs Bristol Old Vic £15
Dir: Fred Newmeyer 70mins “Colin Sell.... on the piano” is a familiar phrase for fans of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue from Colin’s 40yrs as the accompanist on the BBC R4 comedy show. There, he’s usually only ever heard in short bursts. Here, he proves his true talent as musician, playing live to one of the very finest and funniest full length silent features – Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last (featuring the famously gripping clock tower climb that was a marvel of filmmaking ingenuity in its day). With an introduction by Slapstick Festival favourite Barry Cryer. Prepare to laugh yourself silly and for thrills that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
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Posted by lisa at 03/12/2013 05:10 GMT |
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