Charlie Ward
Joan Knight Studio, Perth Theatre, Mon-Fri
Sound&Fury’s intimate and immersive sound installation places audiences in the heart of a makeshift wartime hospital.
British soldiers in the trenches were said to have
held up cardboard cut-outs of Charlie Chaplin’s tramp in the hope the enemy died laughing, but Chaplin’s image was later put to a different use.
To boost morale, medical staff arranged for Chaplin films to be shown for the bedridden, with the ward’s ceiling serving as the silver screen.
This is replicated here.