In Audacity's stage version, which was adapted by director Jaymes Gregory, Garrett tackles both of Chaplin's roles. Now she's playing male - Charlie Chaplin, to be specific - in Audacity Theatre Lab's entry for the Festival of Independent Theatres, The Great Dictator.įilmed in 1940, The Great Dictator was Chaplin's most commercially successful film, and his first to fully transition from silent to "talkie." It satirizes and condemns Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, with Chaplin playing both a fascist dictator and the persecuted Jewish barber with whom he crosses paths. Steph Garrett is Dallas-Fort Worth's hardest-working character actor, having played old, young, and even canine (several times).
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