With live accompaniment by The European Silent Screen Virtuosi

At Arnolfini

Starring Phyllis Haver, in a brilliantly understated comic appearance, this is the original version of the subsequent global musical and Hollywood film Chicago. Based on a true crime story - a wild jazz-loving boozy wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her. Entangling her ever-loving husband in the process the film tells how and to what lengths she is willing to go to escape conviction.

With live musical accompaniment by the European Silent Screen Virtuosi featuring Gunter A Buchwald, Frank Bockius and Romano Todesco also with guest performers including Bristol Ensemble’s Roger Huckle.

Introduced by actor, comedian and Slapstick Festival patron, Denise Coffey.

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