Grand Guignol

This show is not suitable for those with a weak or nervous disposition!
1903. In the back streets of Monmartre, 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 play works fast and loose with convention. A black comedy, a psychological thriller and an unrepentant splatter-fest, GRAND GUIGNOL is a head-spinning, genre-bending phantasmagoria guaranteed to keep you guessing (and wincing) to the very last horror show…
The performing of this gruesome/hilarious/multi-roling/phantasmogoric play in the RHUL boilerhouse means that things are about to happen to the Student Workshop that it may not be entirely ready for...

'Grand Guignol' is The Student Workshop's Autumn Term 2011 Main Studio production.

Production Team:
Director - Lauren Street
Producer - Jade Kearney
Stage Manager - Miranda Marvin
DSM - Zadie Ward
Music - Adam Carver
Publicity - Emma Wallin