Comedy / Previews
Slapstick Festival launches with new beer
There is no better combination than beer and comedy, so it is only fitting that next year’s Slapstick Festival has been launched with two new beers from Dawkins Ales, Slapstick Black and Slapstick White, with a contribution from every sale going directly to the popular festival, between January 24 and 27.
“Bristol should be extremely proud of the Slapstick Festival,” said Aardman’s Peter Lord at the festival launch at the Arnolfini. “It’s such a valuable thing, which achieves the trick of being hugely entertaining but has a lot of integrity, and has an international reputation. Slapstick is a great festival and 2013 is going to be a great year.”
Lord is among the special guests at next year’s festival, which also include June Whitfield, Lucy Porter, Marcus Brigstocke, Dara O’Briain, Nick Park, Ian Lavender, Barry Cryer, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Paul McGann.
The central theme for the ninth annual festival is “funny ladies”, with Chalie Chaplin and Buster Keaton favourites alongside comediennes such as Anita Garvin and Marion Byron, with the inaugural Comedy Legend award presented to Whitfield at a special event at the Bristol Old Vic.
With 16 events spread over four days at four venues – Arnolfini, Colston Hall, Old Vic and Watershed – festival director Chris Daniels promises the biggest and best Slapstick Festival yet.
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