Grand Guignol - Summer of Terror
EAT Theatre brings you three short plays that explore the darker side of the human condition. Two are by a true forgotten hero of British Grand Guignol, Frederick Witney. The naturalistic viciousness that Witney injected into his writing resulted in Coals of Fire being banned outright when submitted for a licence for the 1920s London Grand Guignol. A blind woman warms herself by a fire whilst as a younger woman confesses that she is having an affair with her husband, with dire consequences!
The Last Kiss is Witney's darker, and altogether nastier, adaptation of a Maurice Level short story.‘He’ is blind and badly scarred following an acid attack by his jealous lover some months earlier. ‘She’, having been prosecuted for the attack, pays him a visit three days after her release…
La Morte de L'Amour (The Death of Love) is a brand new Grand Guignol play. Three people find themselves in a room bound to chairs. The husband has 15 minutes to decide who dies: his wife or his lover... Expect 60 minutes of pure unadulterated terror as EAT take audiences on a macabre journey deep into the darker side of the human psyche with their fourth Grand Guignol production and their most challenging to date.