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	Grand Guignol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grand Guignol (Grahn Geen-YOL) was a theatre (Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol) in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal), which, from its opening in 1897 to its closing in 1962, specialized in the most naturalistic grisly horror shows.
		Grand Guignol flourished briefly in London in the early 1920s under the direction of Jose Levy.
		The Grand Guignol theatre was recreated as Théâtre des Vampires (on a sound stage) in 1994 for the film of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_guignol (390 words)

	Guignol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guignol is a French puppet show for children.
		The character of Guignol was devised between 1810 and 1812 by Laurent Mourguet, an unemployed workman from Lyon, supposedly in his own image.
		The idea caught on, and there were many Guignol shows (similar to the English 'Punch and Judy' shows that were satirical, and used to complain about God, the lords, King, and anyone the people had any grievances about) around France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guignol (246 words)

	Grand Guignol - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Grand Guignol, theatre company founded in Paris in 1895, specializing in horror plays.
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Grand_Guignol.html (117 words)

	Reign of Terror: The Grand Guignol
		Murder, rape, mutilation, and torture were bread and butter to the Grand Guignol, which quickly filled the gap that had been left in Parisian entertainment by the discontinuance of public executions.
		But the influence of Grand Guignol techniques on other genres, most notably film, cannot be denied, nor can the fact that for sixty years the little theatre on the rue Chaptal played to the kind of houses all other artistic directors can only long for.
		The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a new Grand Guignol play in which, thanks to a little post-modernist manipulation, the characters are the actors of the Guignol troupe themselves.
	www.amrep.org /past/caligari/caligari1.html (1154 words)

	Grand Guignol Online
		It is derived from Le Theatre du Grand Guignol, the name of the Parisian theatre that horrified audiences for over sixty years.
		But the staple of the Grand Guignol repertoire was the horror play, which inevitably featured eye-gouging, throat-slashing, acid-throwing, or some other equally grisly climax.
		Despite the fact that the Grand Guignol has fallen into relative obscurity, it has had a profound influence on the art of horror performance and special effects.
	www.grandguignol.com (287 words)

	Thrillpeddlers :: Grand Guignol Research :: Gore and Glory of the Grand Guignol
		Established in 1897, the Grand Guignol quickly gained a reputation for staging one-acts.
		Mel Gordon, currently a theatre Professor at U.C. Berkeley, is one of America's foremost authorities on the Grand Guignol.
		The stage trickery of the Grand Guignol was a closely guarded secret.
	www.thrillpeddlers.com /gggg.htm (1072 words)

	Grand Guignol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Grand Guignol opened on 13th April 1897 and was situated at 20 bis rue Chaptal in Montmarte, Paris.
		The Theatre du Grand Guignol (translated to mean Large Puppet Theatre) had once been a convent but was destroyed in the French Revolution and only the chapel remained.
		Many of the famous plays performed at the Grand Guignol were written by Andre de Lorde who wrote at least 100 plays for the venue between the years 1901 and 1926.
	freespace.virgin.net /play.wright/grandguignol.htm (430 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the story on the Grand Guignol, the original shock theater? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Theatre du Grand Guignol, for years one of the leading tourist attractions of the French capital, was the classic shock theatre, specializing in productions designed to horrify and sicken.
		The Grand Guignol's main stock in trade was gory special effects (and they were only that; we're not talking snuff theatre here).
		But in the most effective Grand Guignol plays it was coupled with a shrewd grasp of the psychology of horror plus an over-the-top gallic love of the nutso that can weird you out even today.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a4_072.html (750 words)

	History of GG
		Paris' Grand Guignol, which translates into "big puppet show", would go on contribute to the formation of a "broad range of films of the horror and thriller genres.
		The Theatre du Grand Guignol was founded in 1897 by a forum for naturalist drama, Oscar Metenier.
		By 1900 the Grand Guignol was a thriving enterprise" (Emeljanow, 167).
	www.people.virginia.edu /~sew4e/HISTORYOFTHEGRANDGUIGNOL.html (946 words)

	Grand Guignol History
		The Theatre du Grand-Guignol--which means literally the "big puppet show"--took its name from the popular French puppet character Guignol, whose original incarnation was as an outspoken social commentator--a spokesperson for the canuts, or silk workers, of Lyon.
		Oscar Metenier was himself a frequent target of censorship for having the audacity to depict a milieu which had never before appeared on stage--that of vagrants, street kids, prostitutes, criminals, and "apaches," as street loafers and con artists were called at the time--and moreover for allowing those characters to express themselves in their own language.
		This history of the Grand Guignol was originally published in the journal GRAND STREET (Summer, 1996).
	www.grandguignol.com /history.htm (1263 words)

	Re: Grand Guignol
		Guignol - "The principal character in a popular French puppet show, similar to 'Punch and Judy.' As the performances came to involve macabre and gruesome incidents, the name was attached to short plays of this nature.
		Hence Grand Guignol, a series of such plays or the theatre in which they were performed.
		The character first appeared in a puppet theater at Lyon in 1808, in which it was originally named Chignol, after Chignolo, the theatre owner's native village in northern Italy.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/27/messages/102.html (207 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Book Review: Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Guignol espoused a creed exploding bourgeois taboos, pretensions, and hypocrisies, and of producing plays aimed at offending middle and upper class authority, manners, and sensibilities.
		Not surprisingly, after the Guignol's novelty wore off in the 1930s, its remaining patrons were largely French university students necking in the balconies.
		There is a better and more recent examination of the Grand Guignol in Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror by Hand and Wilson.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2006/04/12/213849.php (1579 words)

	John Zorn's Naked City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Grand Guignol is less accessible than the debut, but more rewarding.
		Grand Guignol is something else again, essentially bringing together three entirely discreet works.
		Stark and intense, 'Grand Guignol' is one of Zorn's major long form compositions.
	www.omnology.com /zorn03.html (2825 words)

	Grand Guignol Special Effects
		Aboutface's prospectus for an original television series suggested by original plays from the Grand Guignol.
		Grand Guignol Effects for The Garden of Torture
		In The Garden of Torture, a Vietnamese slave girl is tortured by stripping a piece of flesh from her back.
	aboutface.org /HTML_Pages/Info/gg_effect_1.html (378 words)

	HORROR WITH A TOUCH OF KINK
		Her latest role: a bearded lady with coveted buttocks in the Grand Guignol-inspired performance of "Bearded Assets," one of the three unique, antique one-act plays presented by San Francisco's Thrillpeddlers troupe in its Shocktoberfest season, playing through Nov. 20 at the Hypnodrome Theater in San Francisco.
		According to Blackwood, the Grand Guignol was invented in 1897 by Oscar Metenier, a tabloid crime journalist turned impresario who called his shows "slice of death" dramas that aimed to provoke and shock.
		The idea dates back to Grand Guignol extravaganzas in 1920s Paris, where visibility in the shock boxes was limited, allowing the audience to take part in its own risque performances.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/10/24/PKGVU9CBLI37.DTL&type=performance (658 words)

	Au Theatre du Grand Guignol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The tradition of lurid melodrama at the Theatre du Grand Guignol, an infamous salon in late nineteenth century Paris, became synonymous with the dramatic presentation of violence, gore, torture, and perversion.
		In the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, short plays and tableaux were presented to depict famous murders and outrages, with trick staging and a suggestive prurience intended to shock and thrill the jaded Parisian bourgeoisie.
		The extreme stylized violence and the casual immorality came from a vulgar French tradition after which this theatrical style was named, the Guignol "theatre" of hand-puppets, which was popular in provincial France, and was the direct precursor to the animated cartoons of our own century.
	www.poeforward.com /poetrycorner/crowley/crowley-poe.htm (146 words)

	Grand Guignol
		In the liner notes Zorn talks about how humanity has a dark side, symbolized by the Grand Guignol, a Parisian theatre that "served up torture, incest, blood lust, insanity, mutilation and death to generations of fervid spectators." The album is Zorn's exploration of our fascination with evil.
		The first, Zorn's "Grand Guignol" is a series of avant-garde vignettes, drums and tortured guitars against a backdrop of silence.
		It is similar to "American Pyscho" on Radio, except it lacks the cultural references to rock and pop.
	members.tripod.com /~JFGraves/Naked_City/gguignol.html (299 words)

	Brown Paper Tickets - Grand Guignol
		From April 03, 2006 7:30 PM Through April 12, 2006 7:30 PM Please note: there will be no late seating for Grand Guignol.
		Although little-known to contemporary audiences, the shockingly graphic depictions of violence and gore that characterized the "Grand Guignol" theatre of the early 20th century continues to exert a recognizable, if little appreciated influence on modern dramatic conventions.
		But the genre was also notable for its eclectic juxtaposition of theatrical styles, as well as for addressing wider cultural and moral themes such as the dehumanizing effects of technology, and the increasing sense of social isolation that
	www.brownpapertickets.com /event/3538 (265 words)

	Amazon.com: Starman: Grand Guignol (Book 9): Books: James Robinson,Peter Snejbjerg (Illustrator) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Starman is an grand, epic adventure story, but Jack Knight himself is a believable and likeable individual.
		This is one of those rare collected editions that make me proud of the industry, and it gives me hope that there is (and always will be) a market for quality monthly comics in the superhero genre.
		"Grand Guignol" is the type of action-packed, fun, and poignant trade paperback which elevates comic storytelling into an artform.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1401202578?v=glance (1233 words)

	Playbill News: Grand Guignol Shocktoberfest Plays San Francisco Oct. 4-Nov. 10
		This October, San Francisco's Thrillpeddlers are peddling a special thrill from the turn of the century: Grand Guignol-style theatre.
		A major French tourist attraction from 1897-1962, the Grand Guignol produced horror plays that often depicted shocking decapitations, dismemberments and bloody finales worthy of modern slasher films.
		A typical Grand Guignol technique, called the Scottish Shower, was to intersperse comedies and sex farces in between the horrific dramas.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/62511.html (433 words)

	Grand Guignol: From theatre to label (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Grand Guignol was founded as a single theatre, which was opened in 1895.
		„Its supporters called the Grand Guignol play the most Aristotelian of twentieth-century dramatic forms since it was passionately devoted to the purgation of fear and pity.
		Very soon the “Grand-Guignol“ meant not only the theatre (which was closed after World War II), it became a label for a certain mode of representation, which is still valid today (Petermann 1987: 225).
	www.deutsches-filminstitut.de /collate/collate_sp/se/se_05_01.html (111 words)

	SLG News
		Scheduled for publication in October 2003, Punch and Judy: A Grand Guignol is a book that writer Christopher P. Reilly swore he'd never write.
		Punch's theatrical roots, though; A Grand Guignol takes its name from the legendary Parisian Theatre du Grand Guignol, known for its shockingly violent stage shows and gruesome special effects.
		Punch and Judy: A Grand Guignol is a 48-page, saddle-stitched graphic novella in a special 8 1/2 x 11" format with cardstock covers, with an introduction by Paul Di Filippo and a painted cover by Jon Foster.
	www.slavelabor.com /nf_punch2.html (607 words)

	Red State Son: Guy Grand Guignol
		Southern's absurdist, sometimes dark takes on the human condition are not only timeless, they were usually well ahead of their time.
		In the 1959 novella "The Magic Christian", Southern's Grand is a mad, practical joking millionaire who, among other strange pursuits, offers big bucks to those willing to publicly debase themselves.
		In addition to the countless "reality" shows that celebrate and reward the lowest, foulest behavior, we have our own Guy Grands in
	redstateson.blogspot.com /2004/11/guy-grand-guignol.html (316 words)

	Thrillpeddlers :: Grand Guignol in San Francisco
		Founded by Russell Blackwood and Daniel Zilber, Thrillpeddlers are continuously engaged in translating, adapting, and producing classic plays from the infamous repertoire of Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol.
		Thrillpeddlers return for a second year with three world premiere adaptations of classic Grand Guignol plays: Andre de Lorde's bizarre mystery Brush With Death; the outrageous Grand Guignol sex farce A Wedding of the Member; and finally, Orgy in the Lighthouse, one of the most popular pieces from the Grand Guignol's later repertoire.
		Thrillpeddlers original adaptation of the quintessential Grand Guignol drama.
	www.thrillpeddlers.com (1211 words)

	Amazon.com: Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (Exeter Performance Studies): Books: Richard J. Hand,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897–1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the "Theatre of Horror", a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was employed to treat the numerous spectators who fainted each night.
		Indeed, the phrase grand guignol has entered the language to describe any display of sensational horror.
		This book proves that Hollywood writers and directors weren't the ones who invented Horror, it was the Grand Guignol theatre and its playwrights.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/085989696X?v=glance (834 words)

	Starman: Grand Guignol TPB Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		Unlike Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novels, which were part of a singular narrative, Trois Coulers is three stories that come together to form a larger “meta-story.” I had never experienced a story so complex.
		“Grand Guignol” was told in issues #61-73 of the Starman series.
		It is the longest of the Starman story arcs, and it has to be.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/110615148519746.htm (1062 words)

	Tales of Terror - Grand Guignol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Showman and master of the macabre, Mondreau the Magnificent has been stunning carnival crowds for more than 15 years with his gory exhibitions.
		Mondreau, whose real name is Vincent Van Dorpe, puts on a grand guignol show called "The Theatre of Pain".
		The blood flows in gouts and the actors scream as their bodies are gouged, burned and maimed by many different cruel devices and methods.
	www.flar.demon.co.uk /terror/tale091.htm (485 words)

	BlackAngel Promotions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The disc is entitled A Night At The Grand Guignol.
		For those who don't know, The Grand Guignol was a legendary Horror Theatre in Paris for many years.
		"Grand Guignol" is graced with seventeen tracks that mixes the genres of Horrorpunk, Death Rock, Punk Rock, Metal and New Wave all together in one big pot for a helluva brew!
	www.antidoterecords.net /bap/bsz.html (532 words)

	Grand Guignol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In fact, the only evidence of the crime still visible to the general public was a fatalistic fl sedan belonging to the forensics team, still parked at the entrance to the dim little alley.
		He arrived at the Theatre du Grand Guignol well after nightfall, and the building had fallen into its own thick nest of shadows behind the larger and grander edifices of the island.
		There were props, dummies and frozen-faced sculptures from the sets of the Grand Operas, swathed in ancient costumes now rotting into tatters, and countless other items of junk and flotsam littered around the floor.
	www.shadolibrary.org /library/ramage/grand_guignol.htm (22392 words)

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