Grand Guignol
Past productions
A play by Victor Bridges, T C Bridges, Sewell Collins, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, André de Lorde, Georges Fabri, Léon Frapé, F Harris Deans, José G Levy, H F Maltby, and Charles Méré
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’.
Same name
- Grand Guignol, by unknown
- Grand Guignol, by Reginald Arkell, Alfred Binet, André de Lorde, Pierre Rehm, Russell Thorndike, and Pierre Veber
- Grand Guignol, by H M Harwood, F Tennyson Jesse, Griffith Jones, H F Maltby, Peter Myers, Eugene O’Neill, William Shakespeare, Kenneth Tynan, and Frederick Witney
- Grand Guignol, by Herbert de Hamel, Reginald Long, Gian Roberto Cavalli, and Frederick Witney
- Grand Guignol, by unknown
- Grand Guignol, by Margaret Gibbs, Nesta Pain, James Parish, and Peter Philp
- Grand Guignol, by Frederick Witney