Southwark Playhouse, London: In 1903 the Theatre du Grand Guignol opened in Paris specialising in plays featuring very physical acts of horror and extreme madness. So successful was this gruesome entertainment, it lent its name to a genre which survives chiefly in today's splatter movies. Writer Carl Grose celebrates the relatively lost live art form with a homage not simply to the genre, but to the people who m…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:00AM on October 28, 2014