Many of you have probably heard the name Grand-Guignol, at least once during your lifetime. The legend that formed around this name came to life in 1897, when André Antoine, the founder of Théâtre Libre, started his collaboration with a certain Oscar Méténier, a former chien de commisaire (a person who accompanied prisoners on a death row). As Méténier witnessed people’s lives perishing into oblivion almost on a daily basis, he wrote down his experiences and observations regarding these particular events in his romans feuilletons, very often describing the fait divers, which stand

Multi-award winning Sell a Door Theatre Company have been touring the country celebrating twenty five years of Liz Lochhead’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula...