The recipe for realistic theatre gore? Jelly, oatmeal and raw meat
From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight Bodies hacked to pieces, brains dribbling out of skulls, tongues sliced out of screaming mouths … Theatre has long been filled with the most macabre visions of guts and gore. But it is a tricky business to make such scenes work for today's audiences, who are acclimatised t…