Details

1903. Paris, Monmartre and the Theatre du Grand Guignol opens its doors to an unsuspecting public. The plays, rife with madness and murder, are sold out every night to an awestruck public, avid for the horrors that are nightly set before them. But when a psychiatrist, obsessed with the gruesome dramas, ingratiates his way into the company and starts to unpick the author's mind, the boundaries between theatre and truth begin to blur... A black comedy, a demented, psychological thriller and an unrepentant splatter-fest, Carl Grose's play is a head-spinning, genre-bending phantasmagoria, guaranteed to keep you guessing - and wincing - to the very last horror show... Three nerve-shredding dramas from the annals of the Grand Guignol are brought to life by London’s acclaimed performers of horror and the macabre. As the nights draw in and the winter bites into Camden, Theatre of the Damned dares you to drag your bones along to the rebirth of Grand Guignol.

Cast/Performers

Kate Quinn, Jeanette Rourke, Tom Richards, James Utechin, Christine Edwards, Scarlet Sweeney, Maria Moustaka, Seamus Newham, Carla Kingham, Panny Skrivanos, Matthew Woodcock, Philip Nightingale, David Shuker, Laura Steel, Sam Winthrop, Simon Evans

Creatives/Company

Producer: Heather Doole (for Theatre of the Damned)
Author(s): Andre de Lorde, Alfred Binet, Stewart Pringle, Tom Richards
Director: Tom Richards
Design: Alice Saville