Horror and Hilarity: The Legend of the Grand-Guignol

Take a journey with Prof. Richard J. Hand into the seedy backstreets of Paris and discover the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, a venue staging blood-curdling horror and comedy every night from 1897-1962. 

Gaining a legendary reputation as the ‘Theatre of Horror’, the story goes that a resident doctor was employed to treat spectators who fainted each night!

Although the original theatres have closed, the legacy of the Grand-Guignol is truly alive (or should we say undead?) and is still to be found in horror movies today.

An ideal way to set the scene for anyone attending The Addams Family.