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Gorgon: A Horror Story – Written by Elf Lyons | Review
March 16, 2021 Last updated:
February 11, 2021 Gorgon: A Horror Story – Written by Elf Lyons
Gorgon: A Horror Story, a new audio-horror production, began life as part of the VAULT festival in an attempt to capture the sensation and gore of the turn of the century Grand-Guignol theatres of London and Paris. As further stage performances have been wrecked by the real-life horrors of COVID-19, the play has now been reborn online. Here, Emily-Anne “Elf” Lyons’ script seems less coherent, jumping fitfully about in terms of scenarios and characters while – as with the best of Amicus and Hammer films – sitting within an overarching framework. Nonetheless, other than an adolescently over-emphatic use of expletives and some shouting, the production is generally effective, built around a solidly camp central performance from the writer as an angsty and vengeful taxidermist and greatly enhanced by Molly Isaac’s superbl