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Chaplin\u2019s part is taken by Amalia Vitale, a tour de force performance in which she captures brilliantly Chaplin\u2019s mute take on the world. Her facial expressions, quizzical eyebrows, and signature heel-turning walk – not to forget the tramp’s bowler hat and cane \u2013 render the master immediately real before our eyes.<\/p>\n
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Equal praise must go to musical director Zoe Rahman with a score that superbly underlines the play\u2019s switch from bathos to pathos and back again.<\/p>\n
The four actors on stage create a lost world in which misery could be supplanted by the laughter of millions and where the \u2018talkies\u2019 had not yet dominated the world of comedy.<\/p>\n
The show is the creation of Told by an Idiot\u2019s director Paul Hunter and adroitly pays tribute to a bygone era and a matching of misfits.<\/p>\n
Runs at HOME until Saturday (8 February).<\/p>\n
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