Event details

SILENT FILM 'Piccadilly' (1929) with live music

Date: Saturday 29th March 2025

Time: 18:30

At: Drewsteignton Church

Organised By: Friends of Drewsteignton Churchyard

Contact: Jennifer Mullins

Doors 18:30 for 19:30 start. £13 (U16 £8).

Ticets from
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wurlitza-presents-piccadilly-tickets-1222775286799.

Come and enjoy a screening in Drewsteignton church of the 1929 silent film, 'Piccadilly'. The film will have a live musical accompaniment, performed by 6-piece band Wurlitza.

Doors open at 18:30 for pre-performance drinks. The films begin at 19:30 and will run until approximately 21:40 with a 20-minute interval.

Snacks and drinks will be available to purchase on the night from the cash bar.

All profits go to Friends of Drewsteignton Church.

***Please note: this film was made in 1929 and reflects attitudes to race and gender prevalent at that time***

ABOUT THE FILM

A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal,

forbidden love and murder. Piccadilly is one of the last silent films to be made, and one of the true greats of British cinema. It’s a lavish feast of glamour and dancing, offering a sumptuous snapshot of 1920’s London as well as being a politically charged tale of racial imparity and a cutting observation of the division between the capital’s rich and poor.