Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror

Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror

Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror

Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror

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Overview

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP - this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. The emphasis in the translation and adaptation of these plays is once again to foreground the performability of the scripts within a modern context - making Performing Grand-Guignol an ideal acting guide. Hand and Wilson have acquired extremely rare acting copies of plays which have never been published and scripts that were published in the early years of the twentieth century but have not been published since - even in French. Includes plays written by, or adapted from, such notable writers as Octave Mirbeau, Gaston Leroux and St John Ervine as well as examples by Grand-Guignol stalwarts Ren E Berton and Andre de Lorde. Also included is the 1920s London translation of Blind Man's Buff written by Charles Hellem and Pol d'Estoc and banned by the Lord Chamberlain. A brief history of the Parisian theatre is also included, for the benefit of readers who have not read the previous books.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780859899956
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Publication date: 03/31/2016
Series: Exeter Performance Studies
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice and Head of Media, Film and TV Studies at University of East Anglia. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Richard has written extensively on adaptation, horror studies, European theatre, radio drama, and popular culture. He has also worked as a writer, director and performer for theatre and radio. His practice-based research activities include experimental live re-creations of The Train of Terror! (2005), The Terrifying Tale of Sweeney Todd! (2008), Noel Coward's The Better Half (2008), and Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound (2011). Michael Wilson is Professor of Drama at Loughborough University. He was previously Professor of Drama and Dean of the School of Media and Performance at University College Falmouth and prior to that was Head of Research at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Glamorgan and Co-Director (with Hamish Fyfe) of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling. His main research interests lie in the field of popular and vernacular performance and he has published extensively on Storytelling, Grand-Guignol and Brecht and his collaborators. In particular, his work on storytelling has led him to work on the interface between storytelling and digital technology and the way in which the internet has enabled the telling and sharing of 'extraordinary' stories of the everyday experiences of people.

Table of Contents

Preface A note on the scripts Section I: A Brief History of the Th EAtre du Grand-Guignol Section II: The Grand-Guignol Laboratory Section III: Prefaces and Plays First Programme The Haunted House (La Maison hant Ee) by Marc Bonis-Charancle The Kama Sutra or Never Play with Fire... (Kama Soutra, ou Il ne faut pas joer avec le feu) by REgis Gignoux Blind Man's Buff by Charles Hellem and Pol d'Estoc The Light in the Tomb (Gott mit uns! (La Lumiere dans la tombeau))by Rene Berton Second Programme Progress by St. John Ervine A Silk Dress (Une Robe de Soie) by Henriette Charasson The Great Terror (La Grande Epouvante) by Andr E de Lorde and Henri Bauche Third Programme The Wax Museum (Figures de Cire) by Andr E de Lorde and Georges Montignac The Lovers (Les Amants) by Octave Mirbeau The Man Who Met the Devil (L'homme qui a vu le diable) by Gaston Leroux The Man Who Killed Death (L'homme qui a tu E la mort) by Rene Berton
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