From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.
Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre (for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil), to today's splatter films. ==Theatre== Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was founded in 1897 by Oscar Méténier, who planned it as a space for naturalist performance.
16, 2008, pp. 65–74. ==Footnotes== Sources ==External links== Aboutface Theatre Company, New York City; series of Grand Guignol plays and adaptations Compagnie Pied de Biche, Swiss-based theatre company that revisits the Grand Guignol genre in contemporary contexts Former theatres in Paris Horror fiction Theatrical genres Buildings and structures in the 9th arrondissement of Paris Theatres completed in 1897 1897 establishments in France 1962 disestablishments in France
His theatre gave Metenier a basic model to use for The Grand Guignol Theatre. Max Maurey served as director from 1898 to 1914.
Maurey discovered André de Lorde, who would become the most important playwright for the theatre. De Lorde was the theatre's principal playwright from 1901 to 1926.
In 2011, they staged Revenge of the Grand Guignol at the Courtyard Theatre, London, as part of the London Horror Festival. In November 2014, 86 years after the last show of Alfredo Sainati's La Compagnia del Grand-Guignol, founded in 1908 and which had been the only example of Grand Guignol in Italy, the Convivio d'Arte Company presented in Milan Grand Guignol de Milan: Le Cabaret des Vampires.
His theatre gave Metenier a basic model to use for The Grand Guignol Theatre. Max Maurey served as director from 1898 to 1914.
He collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theatre's favourite and frequently recurring themes. Camille Choisy served as director from 1914 to 1930.
From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as "the most assassinated woman in the world." During her career at the Grand Guignol, Maxa's characters were murdered more than 10,000 times in at least 60 different ways and raped at least 3,000 times. Jack Jouvin served as director from 1930 to 1937.
Today the horror genre begins with "optimism and hope", which "wither before random, chaotic, and inevitable violence". ==Legacy== Grand Guignol flourished briefly in London in the early 1920s under the direction of Jose Levy, where it attracted the talents of Sybil Thorndike and Noël Coward, and a series of short English "Grand Guignol" films (using original screenplays, not play adaptations) was made at the same time, directed by Fred Paul.
Maurey discovered André de Lorde, who would become the most important playwright for the theatre. De Lorde was the theatre's principal playwright from 1901 to 1926.
He collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theatre's favourite and frequently recurring themes. Camille Choisy served as director from 1914 to 1930.
From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as "the most assassinated woman in the world." During her career at the Grand Guignol, Maxa's characters were murdered more than 10,000 times in at least 60 different ways and raped at least 3,000 times. Jack Jouvin served as director from 1930 to 1937.
Librarie theatrale, 1933. Brown, Frederick.
From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as "the most assassinated woman in the world." During her career at the Grand Guignol, Maxa's characters were murdered more than 10,000 times in at least 60 different ways and raped at least 3,000 times. Jack Jouvin served as director from 1930 to 1937.
Several of the films exist at the BFI National Archive. The Grand Guignol was revived once again in London in 1945, under the direction of Frederick Witney, where it ran for two seasons at the Granville Theatre.
From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.
New York, The Viking Press, 1980. Gordon, Mel.
Da Capo Press, 1997. Fahy, Thomas.
University of Exeter Press, 2002.
London's Grand-Guignol and the Theatre of Horror University of Exeter Press, 2007.
16, 2008, pp. 65–74. ==Footnotes== Sources ==External links== Aboutface Theatre Company, New York City; series of Grand Guignol plays and adaptations Compagnie Pied de Biche, Swiss-based theatre company that revisits the Grand Guignol genre in contemporary contexts Former theatres in Paris Horror fiction Theatrical genres Buildings and structures in the 9th arrondissement of Paris Theatres completed in 1897 1897 establishments in France 1962 disestablishments in France
The company staged in 2010 a diptych Impact & Dr.
More than literal adaptations, the plays address violence, death, crime and fear in contemporary contexts, while revisiting many trope of the original Grand Guignol corpus, often with humour. Recently formed London-based Grand Guignol company Theatre of the Damned, brought their first production to the Camden Fringe in 2010 and produced the award nominated Grand Guignol in November of that year.
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. Hand, Richard, and Michael Wilson.
Olympian Publishing, 2010. Ruff, Felicia J.
In 2011, they staged Revenge of the Grand Guignol at the Courtyard Theatre, London, as part of the London Horror Festival. In November 2014, 86 years after the last show of Alfredo Sainati's La Compagnia del Grand-Guignol, founded in 1908 and which had been the only example of Grand Guignol in Italy, the Convivio d'Arte Company presented in Milan Grand Guignol de Milan: Le Cabaret des Vampires.
2, 2012. Negovan, Thomas.
In 2011, they staged Revenge of the Grand Guignol at the Courtyard Theatre, London, as part of the London Horror Festival. In November 2014, 86 years after the last show of Alfredo Sainati's La Compagnia del Grand-Guignol, founded in 1908 and which had been the only example of Grand Guignol in Italy, the Convivio d'Arte Company presented in Milan Grand Guignol de Milan: Le Cabaret des Vampires.
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