Grand Guignol

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In a typical Grand Guignol performance patrons would see five or six short plays, all in a style that attempted to be brutally true to the theatre’s naturalistic ideals. The most popular and best-known were the horror plays, which featured a distinctly bleak world-view and gory special effects, particularly in their climaxes. The horrors depicted at the Grand Guignol were generally not supernatural; rather, these plays often explored altered states like insanity, hypnosis or panic. To heighten the effect, the horror plays were often alternated with comedies, a lineup referred to as ‘hot and cold showers’.

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