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	Grand Guignol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principal playwright of the Grand Guignol was André de Lorde who wrote at least one hundred plays for the venue between the years 1901 and 1926.
		The Grand Guignol theatre was recreated (on a soundstage) in 1994 for the film of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire.
		"Grand Guignol" is also the name of a storyline in Starman, in which many of the plot points from the first sixty issues of the title were resolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_guignol (339 words)

	Grand Guignol -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The phrase comes from the "Grand Guignol" theatre in (The highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists) Montmartre, (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, which specialised in such entertainment.
		The name originally meant "the big puppet theatre;" a guignol is a (Click link for more info and facts about Punch and Judy) Punch and Judy show, traditional in (A city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon) Lyon.
		The Grand Guignol theatre was recreated for the motion picture stage in 1994 for the film of (Click link for more info and facts about Anne Rice) Anne Rice's (Click link for more info and facts about Interview with the Vampire) Interview with the Vampire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grand_guignol.htm (335 words)

	guignol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guignol's grand meltdown of English and European folk styles, jazz, nu-improv and progressive rock may read like a sprawling mess, but mysteriously it works on every level and deserves to be heard..."
		As deranged and compelling as the album is throughout, the first couple of tracks could have benefited from either more pre-meditation or less altogether, and the noticeable sense of concept that oversees the project occasionally clouds the initial dark folk compositions and the St. Vitus' dance of their unruly initial improvisations.
		Given the personnel involved it's not surprising that we're served an intriguing and brave sonic statement that transcends most conventions there are, finding their own favorite vista on some secret island with the futuristic ocean on one side and the historic on the other.
	www.brainwashed.com /vtb/op-guignol.htm (1318 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)

	Guignol - Wikipédia
		Guignol est une marionnette française créée à Lyon par Laurent Mourguet au XIX
		Les Guignols de l'info est une émission satirique de marionnette de la chaîne de télévision française Canal Plus.
		Dans la marine à voile, un guignol désigne un dispositif pour raidir le mât (ou une partie de celui-ci).
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guignol (123 words)

	Guignol - Angela, David & the Great Neopolitan Road Issue (Cenotaph)
		Taking their name, presumably, from the turn of the century Parisian theatre group, Le Grand Guignol (the infamous "theatre of fear and terror"), this is clearly the work of the deranged arm of the Volcano The Bear troupe.
		With our "sans Grand" Guignol, the CD's cover artwork and title hint at its eccentricity; a bright yellow background with semi-grotesque cartoon figures boating out of perspective on what appears to be a Venetian canal.
		While this may suggest a release of English Victorian eccentricity in the vein of "Bonzo Dog," for example, Guignol rescue themselves from this particular abyss by using some wonderfully inventive and complex musical arrangements (and lyrics) which veer towards the evocative as well as the insane.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2004/guignol.shtml (378 words)

	Guignol -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The hand puppet was created by the puppeteer Laurent Mourguet of Lyons in the early 19th century and was supposedly named for an actual canut, or Lyonnais silk worker.
		Guignol was performed with regional dialect and mannerisms and in the traditional garb of the peasant.
		Although Grand Guignol was introduced into England about 1908, it remained essentially a Parisian theatrical form.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038407?tocId=9038407 (572 words)

	Grand Guignol
		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 /numb.world/fall.grandguignol.htm (442 words)

	Guignol -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The name of the French puppet character Guignol, as the most prominent such character in France, became synonymous with the French puppet theater.
		Guignol was supposedly named for an actual canut, or Lyonnais silk worker.
		American actress and singer whose talent was shown to greatest effect in the 1920s and '30s as a nightclub performer of songs of heartbreak and hard living.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9325385?tocId=9325385 (566 words)

	UK Theatre Facilities
		Pronounced "geen-yohl," it was named after the Grand Guignol theatre in Paris.
		The lobby and the house of the Guignol were renovated in 2000 and the theatre was reopened to the public with a grand gala in February 2001.
		While the main stage UK Theatre productions are presented in either the Briggs or the Guignol, the majority of student directed work is presented in the Little Theatre.
	www.uky.edu /FineArts/Theatre/Facilities/Facilities.htm (1002 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.
		The Grand Guignol lasted for sixty-five years because of the violence and the outrageous.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~sew4e/HISTORYOFTHEGRANDGUIGNOL.html (946 words)

	Grand Guignol
		André de Lorde, (1871-1933 (?)) born in France, the son of a nobleman whose title was more impressive than his fortune, was the chief author of the Grand Guignol plays.
		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.
	www.jahsonic.com /GrandGuignol.html (572 words)

	Page 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guignol is a character from French puppet theatre, akin to Mr Punch.
		The original intent of the Grand Guignol was to put on short performances in which live actors re-enacted faits divers, real-life violent crimes reported in the Paris newspapers.
		Lester speculates that the gruesome sights of the Grand Guignol filled the gap that had been left in Parisian 'entertainment' by the discontinuance of public executions.
	www.bournagain.freeserve.co.uk /Page18.htm (583 words)

	Guignol's Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guignol's Band Review: Speaking as a diehard Celine fan, and someone who still cranes his neck to hear when the word "Celine" is spoken nearby even though I know damn well they're talking about HER...Celine never wrote a bad novel, nothing even close, few writers are as consistently excellent as Celine was.
		What "Guignol's Band" needs, and badly, is a new translation; preferably by Di Bernardi, but regardless by someone not afraid to plunge both hands into Celine's words.
		Guignol's Band Review: Like his Bulgarian pianist-pimp boro, Celine enters the house of the gangster novel, hurls a grenade and flees, recording the pieces.
	www.textkit.com /0_0811200183.html (799 words)

	GrandGuignol.com :: Grand Guignol Online
		But the staple of the Grand Guignol repertoire was the terror play, which inevitably featured eye-gouging, throat-slashing, acid-throwing, or some other equally grisly climax.
		By the early 1960’s, however, the Grand Guignol’s formula no longer had the same impact with audiences, and in 1962, it closed its doors.
		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 (329 words)

	Theater of Bloody Horror; The Grand Guignol by Mel Gordon
		Grand Guignol: Theatre Of Fear And Terror, his stomach-churning history of the twisted side of theater.
		Much of the Guignol's high society success was due to Max Maurey, a sleazeball showman who bought the Guignol from Méténier in 1898 and ran it till 1915.
		According to Gordon, Paris's Grand Guignol was demolished "in March 1963, [when] with much fanfare, the building that housed the Grand Guignol was totally destroyed." He even offers a detailed and colorful account.
	www.weeklyuniverse.com /2003/guignol.htm (1244 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		The name "Guignol" springs from a popular French puppet whose name became synonymous with puppet theater in 19th century France.
		The Guignol character (who is still popular among children) has a mercurial temperament—quick to anger, but equally quick to forgive.
		Today we use "Grand Guignol" generally to mean entertainment of the horror-show variety.
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?May.20 (161 words)

	Thrillpeddlers - Grand Guignol Research - Panel discussion with Mel Gordon and Agnes Pierron
		But I began to think about other things, how the Grand Guignol over a long period of time, 60 years, changed the format and its appeal that one of the things had to remain, and this is acting.
		An evening at the Grand Guignol was not to see a play, specific play, but was to spend the night at the Grand Guignol with at least 5 plays, 5 different plays.
		The Grand Guignol, particularly in the 20’s, needed fantastic, horrific effects, and these events were probably added by the directors.
	www.thrillpeddlers.com /talkback.htm (2490 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The 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.
		Yet for all that, the Guignol was a mostly bourgeois and blue blood happening.
		Not surprisingly, after the Guignol's novelty wore off in the 1930s, its remaining patrons were largely French university students necking in the balconies.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306808064?v=glance (1890 words)

	GrandGuignol.com :: Grand Guignol History
		This history of the Grand Guignol was originally published in the journal GRAND STREET (Summer, 1996).
		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.
	www.grandguignol.com /history.htm (1183 words)

	DarkEcho: Blood on the Footlights
		A typical Grand Guignol night's performance was a series of very short set pieces, often as many as seven a night.
		Thought their titles and descriptions -- such as "Mademoiselle Fifi: a 'shocker' about a prostitute who stabs a German officer" or "The Seductress: a farce about a woman who believes all men are trying to seduce her" -- seemed tame on the surface, the actual performance was anything but.
		The theater itself helped lend to the hysteria, as it was a tiny space: with only a 20 by 20 foot stage the place still managed to pack in 285 people a night.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/darkthot/guignol.html (785 words)

	Guignol - Site Officiel de la Ville de Lyon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guignol is the main character in a puppet theater created at the turn of the century by Laurent Mourguet, a Canut silk worker turned dentist.
		Guignol, now the symbol of Lyon humor, is a poor silk worker, often accompanied by his grouchy wife, Madelon, and the neighborhood drunk, Gnafron.
		Guignol enjoyed huge success with the working classes in the 1830's.
	www.lyon.fr /vdl/sections/en/tourisme/histoire/zoom/a_hist_zoom4 (130 words)

	Le Theatre Guignol Homepage
		The mission of Le Théâtre Guignol (LTG) is to encourage and promote the study of French language and culture through the traditional art of French Guignol puppetry.
		Le Théâtre Guignol was created to fill the need for educational French language and cultural entertainment aimed specifically toward the middle, junior high, and high school French student.
		Between the two shows, a lecture on the history of Guignol and the Guignol theatre is given.
	www.sagecraft.com /puppetry/performance/ltg (1801 words)

	Thrillpeddlers :: Grand Guignol Research :: Gore and Glory of the Grand Guignol
		Indeed, the victims and villains in these gruesome crimes are actors, playwrights, and prop masters who created plays so horrific that a doctor was stationed in the lobby to revive fainting spectators.
		Mel Gordon, currently a theatre Professor at U.C. Berkeley, is one of America's foremost authorities on the Grand Guignol.
		Mel says "The secrecy probably had more to with concealing their simplicity of design than a desire to prevent other theatres from using them." Old publicity photos picture oddly proportioned daggers and wounds that are no more than a streak of blood across an actress' neck.
	www.thrillpeddlers.com /gggg.htm (1072 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Guignol's Band, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THOUGH it's a rather tall order, syntactical analysis being what it is, an examination of the way in which Guignol's Band, C6line's latest novel, is written may largely explain his downfall as...
		...The sheer spectacle for kicks of Guignol's Band, the dotted and disjointed sentences, the narrative without connection, the screamers jiggling under a blow-top pressure of steam, are the syntax, if you please, the pure aesthetic form as such of his anti-Semitic violence...
		...The author of Guignol's Band mav not be quite the same man who wrote Bagatelles for a Masstre, and the rest of the authentic antiSemitic garbage of the Nazi occupation (antiSemitism has rarely entered his fiction), but at one point the two are identical...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V18I5P104-1.htm (1019 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)

	Guignol - "Angela, David And The Great Neopolitan Road Issue" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guignol is the trio of Jeremy Barnes of Bablicon and Laurence Coleman and Aaron Moore of Volcano The Bear, who met while their respective bands were touring together.
		The promo sheet says that it's based on a traditional Slavic song and reflects Guignol's interest in Eastern European folk music, though I detect an off-the-wall John Barleycorn vibe as well.
		But Guignol's real strengths are heard on "The Fly Machine Passes" and "The Great Neopolitan Road Issue", which were my hands down favorite tracks of the set.
	www.aural-innovations.com /2004/january/guignol1.html (673 words)

	Guignol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guignol, imprudent ne surveille pas bien le sac et se le fait voler par Patate, le bandit.
		Guignol, très honteux, décide d 'aller voir la personne à qui il devait apporter le sac d'argent.
		La comtesse récompense Guignol en lui proposant de devenir le gardien de son château.
	freinet.org /creactif/valence/rkk98b/guignol.htm (179 words)

	Curtains soon close on ÔGuignol' - KY Kernel - arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jones decided that the proper way to pay homage to the Grand Guignol would be to put on a production in turn-of-the-century Parisian style, utilizing the short plays popular at the times, and elements of cabaret.
		The Grand Guignol was known as sensational and gruesome.
		To recreate the intimate setting of the original Grand Guignol, Jones moved all of the seating to the stage.
	www.kykernel.com /news/2004/04/23/Arts/Curtains.Soon.Close.On.guignol-687270.shtml (746 words)

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