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The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios

19 Mar 18 – 14 Apr 18, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

This strange, macabre puppet-show musical based on Victor Hugo's L’homme qui rit comes to London after impressing at Bristol Old Vic

By Lucy Brooks on 19/10/2017

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The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios
The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios
The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios Lucy Brooks
Forgo cheesy festivity in favour of Gothic romance this winter as macabre musical The Grinning Man transfers to Trafalgar Studios after impressing at Bristol Old Vic in 2016.


Tony Award-winning War Horse director Tom Morris combines popular culture with pure oddity, drawing on a musical theatre canon spanning Les Mis to cult 90s hit Shockheaded Peter, to tell the story of disfigured hero, Grinpayne, who is loved by a blind girl.


Based on Victor Hugo's 1869 novel L’homme qui rit (The Man Who Laughed), the show bridges fairytale and freak show with gleeful inventiveness. Songs, puppetry and visual flair take audiences into the circus, and into they mystery of how Grinpayne got his bloodied grin.


The Bristol Old Vic production was set in a 17th Century mythical version of Bristol, with a stage framed by a vast grinning mouth. The Grinning Man will be reworked for a specially configured space in Tragalgar Studios, so expect spectacle and strangeness.



What The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios
Where Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY | MAP
Nearest tube Charing Cross (underground)
When 19 Mar 18 – 14 Apr 18, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Price £10+
Website Click here to book now



Up to £70
The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios
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29 Dec 17 - 14 Apr 18

Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios

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