Awhile back, Clatto was fortunate enough to catch legendary horror director Stuart Gordon’s “Re-Animator: The Musical” during its Los Angeles run at The Steve Allen Theater. To this day, it remains one of the strangest and most fun evenings we have ever experienced (read our review here).

Well, Gordon is back with another, possibly more twisted, bit of theater: “Taste.” Written by playwright Benjamin Brand, “Taste” tells the shocking, true story of two men who meet online and “make a unique arrangement: one will kill, cook, and eat the other.”

Presented by Sacred Fools Theater Company, The Schramm Group LLC, and Red Hen Productions, “Taste” imagines their first and only meeting, told in real time, in a working kitchen. The play runs from April 11 – May 17 at the Sacred Fools Theater located at 660 N. Heliotrope, Hollywood, CA 90004.

Preview shows take place April 4 – 6 and April 10. A special Q&A session with Gordon will be held after each of these performance. Ticket info can be found here. Due to the play’s strong sexual content and imagery, no one under 18 will be admitted.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW

True crime fans will recognize the story behind “Taste” to be that of Armin Meiwes, a German homosexual man sentenced to life imprisonment after slaughtering and eating Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, a willing victim he met in an internet chatroom in 2001.

Meiwes, who had fantasized about eating friends since the age of 12, viewed the act as a form of communion, a manner in which to keep someone close. Unfortunately, he grew impatient waiting for Brandes to die, and stabbed him to death.

He then hung Brandes on a hook and sliced him up into chunks. He videotaped the entire ordeal. For the following 10 months, he fed on Brandes meat. He was convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in 2004. After a retrial in 2005, he was given life imprisonment for being a sick fuck.

Meiwes has since become a vegetarian.