Terror - 2009 - Theatre of Horror and Grand Guignol
From: Wednesday, 7th October 2009
To: Saturday, 24 October 2009
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Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 12 October 2009
There’s a lot to be said for trying to reinvent horror and grand guignol in the theatre. Why should shocks and scares be a thing of the dusty theatrical past when we still crave horror in film and fiction?
The Jacobeans loved to be frightened witless and splashed with buckets of blood. It’s that raw, visceral function of theatricality that Adam Meggido and Jason Lawson of The Sticking Place seek to recreate in Terror, their fifth annual season of grand guignol.
Here’s a mouth-watering bill of four short plays by Lucy Kirkwood, Mark Ravenhill, Anthony Neilson and Neil LaBute, punctuated with mournful, sado-masochistic cabaret songs by Sarah-Louise Young and prefaced with the brutal exclusion of a mobile phone offender who I hope was a plant.
All the plays are edgy and interesting, but LaBute’s Some White Chick is deeply unsettling and uncharacteristically amoral in its portrait of two porn internet providers ([Michael Co...
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The Sticking Place (Company)
Mark Ravenhill (The Experiment) (Author)
Anthony Banks (The Experiment) (Director)
Lucy Kirkwood (Psychogeography) (Author)
Adam Meggido (Psychogeography) (Director)
Anthony Neilson (Twisted) (Author)
Hannah Eidinow (Twisted) (Director)
Neil LaBute (Some White Chick) (Author)
Jason Lawson (Some White Chick) (Director)
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