To allow the audience some release from the tensions inspired by fear and insanity, an evening at the Grand-Guignol alternated drama with comedy to create a kind of hot and cold effect.
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This is why we may reject Deák’s assertion that the Grand-Guignol is an amoral drama. A better definition is to interpret the Grand-Guignol as morally erratic, taking place in an indifferent universe where there is no justice but definitely retribution, albeit far from divine.
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The Grand Guignol ( ) was a theatre ( Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol , literally The Theater of the Big Puppet ) in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal), which, from its ...
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This annual blood-fest, put on by the Thrillpeddlers, is inspired by the Grand Guignol tradition of French horror plays, which means plenty of spurting blood whenever the occasion demands -- and the ...
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Your big exaggerations, always lead to a confrontation, This little act is getting old, you're the Grand Guignol. You love the drama, You play the role, and you'll do anything, to get my goat. and when you bleed some, it's a horror show, You think I'm crazy, well you should know.
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Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson are professors of drama at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries. Together they have delivered workshops on Grand Guignol and presented Grand Guignol performances at universities, international conferences, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...
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From the early 1900s until 1962, the Grand Guignol was a small theater in Paris that specialized in all things horrific. The plays performed there went beyond the funny, shocking thrills that one might expect from a typical Halloween show. ... Plays / Drama Blog...
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AT first glance Room 106 of the Los Angeles criminal court seems a drab, utilitarian and surprisingly cramped setting for a grand guignol drama of fame, sex and gunplay. ... In grand jury testimony Lynne Herold, a forensic scientist, said that blood-splatter on Spector's jacket put him "within two or three feet" of the gun.
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In this exuberantly stylized romantic Western from Thailand, the director Wisit Sasanatieng’s joyful, knowing channelling of classic-era popcorn-movie conventions brings its cardboard characters and Grand Guignol drama to life. ... Rumpoey (Stella Malucchi), a young beauty dolled up like an Asian Liz ... The Film File...
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