Neil Brand Presents: Silent Comedy Triple Bill

The three greatest silent comedians come together for one awesome show presented by piano dynamo and much-loved broadcaster Neil Brand.

Charlie Chaplin’s classic The Rink features the Tramp working as a waiter in a high-class restaurant and bunking off to the roller-skating rink in his spare time, where he gets involved with a beautiful skater and a philandering villain, culminating in the roller-chase of all time!

Buster Keaton’s The High Sign involves Buster looking for work on the beach boardwalk and unwittingly ending up as a paid assassin for a bunch of crooks. The final chase through the walls and floors of a two-storey house has to be seen to be believed!

Harold Lloyd’s Never Weaken sees our bespectacled hero clinging to a high building after attempting suicide on mistakenly believing his girlfriend loves another – high above Los Angeles, he must use his wits to dodge girders and cranes as he attempts to get back to her from a half-built skyscraper!

These comedy shorts represent the Golden Age of silent comedy and are a guaranteed laugh-maker for the whole family. Neil Brand presents, telling the stories behind these iconic slapstick classics and accompanies on the piano in his inimitable style.

Neil tells us:

"I am so delighted to be returning to DCA where I have so many happy memories of performances past.

It's particularly lovely to be returning with three Greats of silent comedy, Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, in the cream of their short films. Being able to accompany them on the piano is a joy, riding their coat-tails with an audience laughing along is the best medicine for current times, and believe me, this comedy doesn't age. 

Chaplin being brilliant on rollerskates,  Keaton turning a whole two-storey house into an assault course and Harold Lloyd giving us heart failure by hanging off a half-built skyscraper are the stuff of legend – these films will appeal to the whole family. See you there!"