Grand Guignol

By Carl Grose

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 playwright’s gruesome dramas ingratiates his way into the company. But when he starts to unpick the author’s mind, the boundaries between theatre and truth begin to blur… Delighting in this lost theatrical form, Carl Grose’s 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…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Release date: Nov 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9781849438230

Carl Grose

Carl Grose has written for the RSC, the National Theatre, Told by an Idiot, Soho Theatre, Spymonkey, Gyre and Gimble, and The Drum Theatre, Plymouth. He recently wrote Bristol Old Vic’s West End musical hit The Grinning Man. He also works with the internationally acclaimed theatre company Kneehigh. Writing for Kneehigh includes Tristan & Yseult and The Bacchae (with Anna Murphy), Hansel & Gretel, The Wild Bride, The Tin Drum and Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs). In 2019, he became co-artistic director of Kneehigh.