The System Of Doctor Goudron And Professor Plume: A Grand Guignol Classic

THE?SYSTEM?OF DOCTOR?GOUDRON?AND?PROFESSOR?PLUME, staged at the legendary Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris in 1903, was the first sensational horror play by André de Lorde, the prolific author who went to produce dozens more works in the vein of "medical horror" - claustrophobic, gore-splattered scenarios played out in hospitals, bizarre experiment labs, and madhouses. Here, a lunatic asylum is taken over by its inmates, resulting in scenes of terror, suspense and human butchery. This new tra...