The name "Tussaud" has always been linked to sensationalism and popular culture: now synonymous with the celebrity-studded wax "museums" known from London to Bangkok to Times Square, in the late eighteenth century the waxworks of Madame Marie Tussaud bore testament to the fervor, excess, and brutality sweeping through her native France. Ironically, it was her […] The full version of the article Sensation and Docume…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:18AM on October 21, 2021