The Grinning Man review " the greatest freakshow in town
Trafalgar Studios, LondonBristol OId Vic's bewitching musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's L'Homme qui rit makes a witty West End transferVictor Hugo was one of the great myth-makers of 19th-century Europe " a royalist turned republican whose novels captured, and perhaps also helped to form, a deeply romantic sense of historical injustice. L'Homme qui rit, published in his late 60s near the end of a 15-year exile from…