Join us for a very special evening at The Bear, featuring an adventurous new score for the classic silent film The Mark of Zorro (1920) from Meg Morley and Emiliano Caroselli.
Since playing for her first silent film in 2016, Meg Morley has quickly become one of the UK's pre-eminent silent film accompanists, performing at various international film festivals and playing regularly at the London Cinema Museum and BFI Southbank, where she is a house pianist.
Her recent commissions include a live collaborative score with Derbyshire's trio Haiku Salut for Menschen am Sonntag, a solo piano score for Alfred Hitchcock's The Ring, and this exciting new collaboration with virtuoso Cuban-trained, Italian-born drummer Emiliano Caroselli.
The Mark of Zorro (1920) is an American Western starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckling adventure is based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro (a cross between a Californian Robin Hood and a prototype Batman figure). The film, which was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, was a huge success, and was one of the first films released through United Artists - the company formed by Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith to free the artists of control from the studio system.
There will be popcorn… and original 1920s Douglas Fairbanks cocktails, specially recreated for the occasion.
“This film is an example of a silent classic that lives up to its reputation”
Doors 7pm / Film starts 8.30pm / Tickets £14
All seating/tables are first come first served.