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1903. In the back streets of Montmartre, the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays performed, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night. A psychiatrist obsessed with the playwrights gruesome dramas ingratiates his way into the company. But when he starts to unpick the authors mind, the boundaries between theatre and truth begin to blur... Delighting in this lost theatrical form, Carl Groses demented new play works fast and loose with convention. A black comedy, a psychological thriller and an unrepentant splatterfest, Grand Guignol is a head-spinning, genre-bending phantasmagoria guaranteed to keep you guessing (and wincing) to the very last horror show...
1903. In the back streets of Montmartre, the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays performed, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night. A psychiatrist obsessed with the playwrights gruesome dramas ingratiates his way into the company. But whe...
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Carl Grose's plays include Quick Silver, Laughing Gas (with Nick Darke),49 Donkeys Hanged and Superstition Mountain. He has written for Told By An Idiot, The National Theatre, o-region, BBC Radio, Vesturport and Kneehigh (Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae and Cymbeline. Carl was born in Cornwall in 1975.
Carl Grose's plays include Quick Silver, Laughing Gas (with Nick Darke),49 Donkeys Hanged and Superstition Mountain. He has written for Told By An Idiot, The National Theatre, o-region, BBC Radio, Vesturport and Kneehigh (Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae and Cymbeline. Carl was born in Cornwall in 1...
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