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Taking Charlie

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  1w, 2m

Neil Warhurst

In 1978 two Eastern European unemployed auto-mechanics kidnapped and ransomed the body of Charlie Chaplin in order to set up their very own garage.

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    1w, 2m

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Summary

Taking Charlie is a dark comic fantasy based on this real life very bad idea, and will leave the audience with two useful life lessons; firstly don’t dig up dead comedians, and secondly when you’re face to face with a powerful idiot there’s only one thing to do…laugh.

  • Time Period 1970s
  • Features Period Costumes

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"We are moved, touched, disturbed...the script is clever and laugh out loud funny" : Manchester Evening News, 4 stars

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Neil Warhurst

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