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From living on the streets of Lambeth and in a home for destitute children, he rose above appalling adversity to become the greatest film star ever. How is that possible?

The new Rudes show is the extraordinary story of Charlie Chaplin’s childhood and how he made comedy out of tragedy, from illiteracy to beauty and the visually poetic.

Full of music hall, poetry, playground clapping rhymes and slapstick, it will make you cry one minute and howl with laughter the next.