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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 ...
Theatre in Lebanon has its origin in passion plays.The musical plays of Maroun Naccache from the mid-1800s are considered the birth of modern Arab theatre. [1] [2] Some scholars, such as Abdulatif Shararah, have divided Lebanese theatre into three historical phases centered on 1) translations of European plays, 2) Arab nationalism, and 3) realism.
Palestinian attacks claimed 106 lives in northern Israel from 1967, according to official IDF statistics, while the Lebanese army had recorded "1.4 Israeli violations of Lebanese territory per day from 1968–74" [64] Where Lebanon had no conflict with Israel during the period 1949–1968, after 1968 Lebanon's southern border began to ...
This is a timeline of Lebanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Lebanon and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Lebanon. See also the list of presidents of Lebanon and list of prime ministers of Lebanon
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.
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.
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]
Aubrey Hammond (September 18, 1893 – March 19, 1940), was an English theatre practitioner. He worked as a set and costume designer in theatre and film and was a humourist, a book illustrator and commercial poster and advertising designer.