The Theatre of Horrors: How the visceral Grand-Guignol thrilled Paris to the core

In which Muriel tells Suzanne about the rise and fall of the once ultra-fashionable Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, where, not far from the Moulin-Rouge, the fears of the Belle-Epoque and interwar years – from crazed surgeons and escaped lunatics to the Modern Woman wielding sulphuric acid – were staged with an immersive, hallucinatory intensity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.