About this Event
Come and spend Halloween watching 1920's classic silent film Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with musical accompaniment by Yosi Marshall. This film is an adaptation of the 1886 novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film stars the great actor, John Barrymore who plays both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and is directed by John S Roberton. Set in late Victorian London, the film portrays the tragic consequences of a doctor's experiments in separation the dual personalities he thinks define all humans : one good, the other evil. Yosi will be accompanying music on organ, piano, saxophone, clarinet, flute and percussion.
Yosi also accompanied music to F Murnau's romantic thriller, Sunrise earlier this year as well as the horror silent film Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney in October 2025 at the Brighton Unitarian Church, Ben Hur in May at the All Saints Centre in Lewes, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. In January last year the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Cabinet of Dr Caligari in November 2024 as well as the Lodger , Charlie Chaplin Modern Times at the All Saints Centre in Lewes and at the OSO Centre in Barnes to a packed house as well as having been a regular performer at the Classic Cinema Club, the International School of London and Addison Primary School. He has played musical accompaniment on such films as the Artist, The Passion of Joan of Arc, the Arabian Nights, the Man who Laughs, the Voyager, Balloonatic and the Electric House. During lockdown, he streamed musical accompaniment online to films such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
Yosi has also accompanied and shown a few silent films at the All Saints Centre, the first being The Temptress, 1926, starring Greta Garbo as well as Metropolis , the Fritz Lang classic. The screening of Nosferatu is the first time that they showed accompanied silent films at the Brighton Unitarian Church at Halloween 2023.
Yosi is also a seasoned classical pianist and jazz saxophonist/flautist. He performed the Goldberg Variations at St Michael's Church in Lewes in November 2024 as well as played with the Lucharian Trio, Latin-Indo-Celtic jazz trio with Lucho and Sean at the Con Club in Lewes. He also plays regularly with Momentum, 6 piece dynamic latin-Jazz fusion group, with 3 albums. They play regularly at the Pizza Express in London as well as the Bull's Head in Barnes and George IV in Chiswick where they will be releasing their 4th album, Moment in Time on 15th November for this year's London Jazz Festival .
He will also be giving a piano recital at St Michael's Church on November 25th this year, a programme of music from Bach, Beethoven, Prokofiev and George Gershwin on piano. He is a regular performer there, and played last November, a charming programme from Mozart, Bach, Kabalevsky, Chopin, Debussy and Chick Corea.
Event venue & nearby stays
Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
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