tickets for Slapstick 2008 Festival with Tim & Graeme go on sale Dec 5th
01/12/2007 00:00 GMT

Posted by lisa

The following comes from the St Georges Bristol's website; this is the venue for Tim & Graeme's session at the Slapstick 2008 Festival on January 19th (http://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/event.php?pid=319).  The page says that tickets for the general public will go on sale on December 5th:

Saturday 19 January 8pm

Bristol Silents presents
Buster Keaton, classic comedy shorts to live music

Preview: Tickets not yet on sale.

Patrons' / Benefactors' Priority Booking opens
Wednesday 28 November
Gala Friends' Priority Booking opens Friday 30 November
Friends' Priority Booking opens Monday 3 December
General Booking opens Wednesday 5 December

To benefit from priority booking for this event click here for details of the Friends of St George's.
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TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR and GRAEME GARDEN
PRIMA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Slapstick 2008 presents a delightful evening of entertainment discovering the genius of Buster Keaton alongside two of Britain's best-loved entertainers. Former 'Goodies' and current I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden choose their favourite Keaton short films, revealing the works that have influenced their lives and which, they hope, will delight new audiences.

With live musical accompaniment by the Prima Vista Social Club featuring Neil Brand and international friends.

Brand: '... the Doyen of silent film accompanists.' BBC RADIO 4

Brand: 'His playing is amazingly vivid and dynamic and bracingly free of cliché.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH


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Buster Keaton is considered one of the greatest comic actors of all time. His influence on physical comedy is rivaled only by Charlie Chaplin. Like many of the great actors of the silent era, Keaton's work was cast into near obscurity for many years. Only toward the end of his life was there a renewed interest in his films. An acrobatically skillful and psychologically insightful actor, Keaton made dozens of short films and fourteen major silent features, attesting to one of the most talented and innovative artists of his time.


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Bristol Silents was formed in August 2000 to promote and celebrate silent cinema and has gone from strength to strength with national tours of silent programmes and the hugely successful Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival establishing an international reputation for live silent film events.

'Bristol Silents has done a great thing for silent films. People as a whole have forgotten how wonderful they could be – how wonderful they still are.' PAUL MERTON

'Bristol Silents is an inspired idea. It is the first time anyone has linked their community to the lost art of silent films ...'
KEVIN BROWNLOW 

£12(£10)

Group discounts available

Promoted by Bristol Silents
Supported by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Arts & Business, Watershed