First performed at Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in 1911, Maurice Level's Le Baiser dans la nuit is probably the best known of the infamous little theatre's horror plays. It is also representative of the kind of plays that the Grand-Guignol playwrights specialized in -- short naturalistic dramatizations of lurid crimes plucked from the tabloid headlines. (It goes without saying that the writers for shows like Law & Order and CSI would have felt right at home.)

The Car Crash Club's adaptation, The Final Kiss, is set in a kind of stylized hallucinogenic version of turn-of-the-century France, and it's a bit more representative of the exaggerated way in which the Grand-Guignol form is usually interpreted for modern audiences.