Sounds of Silentsdr

The Sounds of Silents returns to Center Stage in Evergreen on Thursday, October 3 with The Kid, the 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin's first full-length film as a director, The Kid was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921 and is considered one of the greatest films of the silent era, At the time, The Chicago Herald and Examiner said: The Kid settles once and for all the question as to who is the greatest theatrical artist in the world. Chaplin does some of the finest, most delicately shaded acting you ever saw anywhere, and for every slapstick furore in it there is a classic, exquisite scene. His actions are riotous, convulsive, irresistible. Piano prodigy Patrick Lee performs his own original scores to the silent movies for a unique combination of live performance and on-screen entertainment that you are unlikely to find anywhere else.