{"id":128011,"date":"2020-01-16T14:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/16\/the-strange-tale-of-charlie-chaplin-and-stan-laurel-review-a-magical-fantasia\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:36:53","slug":"the-strange-tale-of-charlie-chaplin-and-stan-laurel-review-a-magical-fantasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128011","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel review \u2013 a magical fantasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton\u2019s Music Hall, LondonA transatlantic voyage in 1910, with the silent stars onboard, is the basis of Told By An Idiot\u2019s beguiling comedyCharlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel shared a boat from the UK to New York in 1910, as part of Fred Karno\u2019s music hall troupe. Stan later understudied for Charlie \u2013 before they went their separate, and separately legendary, ways. Is that a \u201cstrange tale\u201d? Not really \u2013 it\u2019s just a scrap of biography, a fleeting association about which little is known. But in this silent comedy for the London international mime festival, Told By An Idiot mine it for beguiling oddity, as Chaplin, Laurel and Karno shuttle and pratfall around a transatlantic liner and episodes from their past and future vault into view like salmon from the sea.The effect is less tale, more short stories. It is assembled with minimal rhyme and reason, but with the follow-its-nose logic (and illogic) to which the company\u2019s fans \u2013 myself included \u2013 are well accustomed. Director Paul Hunter valued \u201cfiction over fact [and] fantasy over reality\u201d, the programme tells us \u2013 which explains the central sequence, in which Chaplin accidentally murders his underling with a frying pan and (after the obligatory manhandling-a-corpse slapstick sequence) hurls the hapless Lancastrian overboard. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/jan\/16\/the-strange-tale-of-charlie-chaplin-and-stan-laurel-review-wiltons-music-hall-london\" target=\"_blank\">The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel review \u2013 a magical fantasia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton\u2019s Music Hall, LondonA transatlantic voyage in 1910, with the silent stars onboard, is the basis of Told By An Idiot\u2019s beguiling comedyCharlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel shared a boat from the UK to New York in 1910, as part of Fred Karno\u2019s music hall troupe. Stan later understudied for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}