A short, plotless, film set in Keaton's vaudeville birthplace, which
uses tricks to create the illusion of Buster playing all the actors,
members of the orchestra and audience simultaneously. He gets caught
out by the same trick by two apparently identical actresses and a series
of stage-based funnies evolves, including a troupe of Zouaves. Quite a
strange film that may have depended on his distorted memories of
childhood, The Playhouse involves less acrobatics than usual - Keaton
had broken his leg during filming of The Electric House.
