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Oscar Méténier. Oscar Méténier was the Grand Guignol's founder and original director. Under his direction, the theater produced plays about a class of people who were not considered appropriate subjects in other venues: prostitutes, criminals, street urchins and others at the lower end of Paris's social echelon.
Grand Guignol: 7, cité Chaptal: 9th: opened 1897, closed 1963 Théâtre Historique: 72, boulevard du Temple: 9th: opened 1847, demolished 1863 Hôtel de Bourgogne: rue Mauconseil (now rue Étienne Marcel) 2nd: theatre built in 1548, used until at least 1783 Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes: 52, rue de Bondy: 10th: opened 1790, closed 1807 Salle ...
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.
Grand Guignol refers to the former Théâtre du Grand-Guignol of Paris, which specialized in grisly horror shows. Grand Guignol may also be: Any gruesome or gory drama or event, such as a Grande Dame Guignol; Grand Guignol, album by Naked City "Le Grand Guignol", song by Soft Cell from the album Cruelty Without Beauty
In France, from 1897, the Grand Guignol theatre was scaring audiences with graphically staged horror entertainment. [5] The Phantasmagoria show existed even earlier, but a well-known version in 1797 Paris was the Fantasmagorie, which made use of magic lantern projections and crude special effects. [6]