After the performance "Tanz - The Adventures of a Youth", which was our first collaboration and also the inaugural production of the Red Jasper Cabaret Theatre, we wanted to continue our research on how it could be re-signaled, through the theatre's productions, the concept of a contemporary theatrical cabaret, which can bring together different art forms. So we turned to “Footlights”, the only novel written in his entire career by the British director and actor Charlie Chaplin in 1948, in which he narrates the story of a dancer and a clown, a story that it stems from the "brief but decisive meeting between Chaplin and the Russian choreographer Nijinsky in 1916 " according to the director's biographer, David Robinson. The book captivates the reader with its vivacity, narrative balance and freedom, while its writing style is similar to that of Dickens, mainly in its descriptions and deepening of its characters. Chaplin sets his story in 1914, the year he entered the cinema himself, to tell the story of a fallen comedian, Calvero, who saves a young dancer from her suicide attempt.