Theatre Of Horror
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Grand Guignol
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Author : Richard J. Hand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Grand Guignol written by Richard J. Hand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Drama categories.
Since the theatre closed its doors 40 years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book considers the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at a major evaluation of the genre as performance.
Grand Guignol
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Author : Richard J. Hand
language : en
Publisher: Exeter Performance Studies
Release Date : 2002
Grand Guignol written by Richard J. Hand and has been published by Exeter Performance Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
Since The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at a major evaluation of the genre as performance.
Horror On The Stage
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Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-06-28
Horror On The Stage written by Amnon Kabatchnik and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-28 with Performing Arts categories.
There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from classical plays like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Euripides' Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France, and present-day productions like Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd, Stephen King's Carrie and dark 21st-century plays by Clive Barker and Conor McPherson. The book compiles the history and behind-the-scenes tales surrounding stage productions about monsters, hauntings and horrors both historical and imagined. Included are the nightmarish adaptations of popular writings from Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, as well as plays starring popular characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Woman in Black. More than 500 plays are documented, accompanied by dozens of photographs. Entries include plot synopses, existing production data, and evaluations by critics and scholars.
Theatre And The Macabre
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Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Theatre And The Macabre written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Art categories.
The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol; from Hell Houses to German Trauerspiel; from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dark rides, haunted mothers and haunting children, dances of death and dismembered bodies. From Japan to Australia to England to the United States, the global macabre is framed and juxtaposed to understand how the theatre brings us face to face with the deathly and the horrific.
London S Grand Guignol And The Theatre Of Horror
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Author : Richard J. Hand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
London S Grand Guignol And The Theatre Of Horror written by Richard J. Hand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Drama categories.
London's Grand Guignol--a macabre theatre of naturalistic horror--was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. Taking its cue from Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris, this high-profile venture enjoyed as much critical controversy as popular success. On its side were some of the finest actors of the English stage, such as Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, as well as a team of extremely able writers, including the legendary Noël Coward. London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror considers the importance and influence of the Grand Guignol within its social, cultural, and historical contexts, while presenting a selection of ten remarkable Grand Guignol plays, several of which were banned by the Lord Chamberlain, the censor of the day, and have never been publicly performed--including a previously unpublished work by Coward. The companion volume to Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror, already in its third edition, this book is an essential addition to any gore-loving student of drama and the twentieth-century theatre of horror.
Theatre Of Horror
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Author : Richard van Dülmen
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Theatre Of Horror written by Richard van Dülmen and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with History categories.
Performing Grand Guignol
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Author : Richard J. Hand
language : en
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Release Date : 2019-07-31
Performing Grand Guignol written by Richard J. Hand and has been published by University of Exeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with Performing Arts categories.
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 René Berton and André 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.
Chicago S Awful Theatre Horror
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
Chicago S Awful Theatre Horror written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with categories.
Theater Of Fear Horror Expanded Edition
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Author : Mel Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Feral House
Release Date : 2016-07-18
Theater Of Fear Horror Expanded Edition written by Mel Gordon and has been published by Feral House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-18 with Performing Arts categories.
"Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater so much as mentions it, although it is a form of entertainment that held its own on the Paris stage for more than half a century. But Mr. Gordon has made a thorough job of filling the gap."—John Gross, The New York Times Here is the expanded edition of classic outré book, The Grand Guignol, first published in 1988 and now long out of print. Like the original anthology, it includes an illustrated introduction to the theater of Paris and abroad, a breakdown of its stage tricks, a summary of one hundred plots, extensive photo documentation, André de Lord's essay, "Fear in Literature," and two originally produced Grand Guignol scripts. The expanded edition also contains additional graphic and textual material including a color insert of Grand Guignol posters; the 1938 autobiographical account of Maxa, the company's leading female performer entitled "I Am the Maddest Woman in the World"; and the controversial playscript Orgy in the Lighthouse.
Lest We Forget Chicago S Awful Theater Horror
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Author : Marshall Everett
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
Lest We Forget Chicago S Awful Theater Horror written by Marshall Everett and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
This book tells about the Iroquois Theatre fire that occurred on December 30, 1903, at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The fire resulted in more than 600 deaths and was the deadliest theater fire and single-building fire in U.S. history. This book is a tribute to the tragedy that left a deep trace in the memory of past generations and is also horrifying to a modern reader.