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In November 2014, 86 years after the last show of Alfredo Sainati's La Compagnia del Grand-Guignol, founded in 1908 and which had been the only example of Grand Guignol in Italy, the Convivio d'Arte Company presented in Milan Grand Guignol de Milan: Le Cabaret des Vampires. The show was an original tribute to Grand Guignol, a horror vaudeville ...
Juan Jose G. Levy (Portsmouth, 29 June 1884 - 6 October 1936) was an English theatre practitioner who attempted to import the ghoulish and grisly Grand Guignol aesthetic for London audiences. [1] Levy was born in Portsmouth, England and educated at the Ecole de Commerce, Lausanne. He wrote a number of plays between 1908 and 1925. [2]
In 1897, Oscar Méténier bought a theatre at the end of the impasse Chaptal (9th arrondissement) to present his own plays. This was the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, one of the most original theatres in Paris, and he remained its director until 1898.
Max Maurey was a French playwright born in Paris in 1866 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1947. He was also the theatre manager of the Théâtre des Variétés from 1914 to 1940 and from 1944 to 1947, and director of the Théâtre du Grand Guignol from 1898 to 1914.
André de Lorde. André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869–1942) was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to 1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.
Gordon wrote two books on the sexual histories of Berlin [4] and Paris, a book on the history of the Grand Guignol theatre [7] and a two-volume history of the Stanislavski method. He was finishing books about American fascist love cults and flappers at the time of his death. [2]
The art deco and French Renaissance-styled theater, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, opened on April 10, 1931. Erie's showplace: A timeline of the Warner Theatre's history Skip ...
Georges Renavent (born Georges DeChaux, April 23, 1892 [1] – January 2, 1969) was a French-American actor in film, Broadway plays and operator of American Grand Guignol. He was born in Paris, France. In 1914, he immigrated to the United States, crossing the frontier between Canada and Vermont.