Sunday 28th September. 7.30pm.
A film-music-comedy extravaganza with riotous gems from cinema’s earliest superstars and live music from cutting edge musicians Nikki Yeoh and Serafina Steer.
A selection of side-splitting shorts includes riotous early comedies directed by Gaumont pioneer Alice Guy (L’Hiérarchie dans l’amour; Madame à des envies; Le Frotteur). Mabel Normand, one of cinema’s first superstars, plays a bandit in Should Men Walk Home?, while the glorious child star Baby Peggy goes undercover to get the perfect scoop in The Kid Reporter, and rubber-faced Florence Turner excels as star and director of Daisy Doodad’s Dial.
As part of the International Comedy Film Festival, we are very excited to welcome the team from highly respected Bird's Eye View with a selection of celluloid gems from the golden age of the silver screen. Their Clowning Glories programme was first shown at the British Film Institute in London earlier this year and we are thrilled to have such a prestigious event visiting the Bay.
Nikki Yeoh is a London based jazz pianist, composer and .keyboard
player. She has worked with Courtney Pine, Oxford New Chapel Boys
Choir, Jools Holland, The Roots, Sir George Martin, Eddie Harris, JoAnna
MacGregor and Piano circus among others.
Serafina Steer plays harps keyboards and vocals. She is a classically trained musician from London who has focused on songwriting and production. Her debut album `cheap demo bad science` came out last year. Public Spirited EP will come out in April to coincide with her first Japanese tour.
Comedy Short Films + live accompaniment from Nikki Yeoh and Serafina Steer.
28th September 2008, 7.30pm.
Palace Theatre
Palace Avenue
Paignton