Interesting Grand Guignol items are few and far between on Ebay these days, so it’s pretty exciting (to me, anyway) when several show up in one week: Original Theatre du Grand Guignol Program from 1952-53 From the listing: ANOTHER FABULOUS FIFTIES FRENCH THEATRE PROGRAM- “DU PLOMB CES DEMOISELLES”. OF COURSE WE HAVE THE GREAT VINTAGE [...]
Attention all Grand Guignol collectors! A copy of the March 1950 edition of the men’s pin-up magazine SEE is up for sale on eBay. This issue features a rare article about the Grand Guignol theatre. It was one of the first articles I found when I started my research in the mid 1980s, and has [...]
San Francisco public radio station KALW (91.7 FM) will feature Thrillpeddlers on the “Open Air” broadcast this Tuesday, March 25th at 1:00pm. Host Alan Farley interviews professor Richard Hand and director Eddie Muller about our U.S. Premiere production of Noel Coward’s long-lost comedy “The Better Half.” If you’re not in San Francisco, you can listen [...]
Here’s something that you don’t see every day: A first edition of Mel Gordon’s classic “Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror” for sale on eBay. Judging from the photos, it looks like it’s in really nice condition. This is the book that inspired us to stop simply dreaming about the Grand Guignol and actually [...]
Today’s edition of the University of Maryland’s student newspaper features a story on the student-produced and directed Grand Guignol play that I mentioned here yesterday. The Lab: An Experiment in Grand Guignol gets high marks from student reporter Dave Smith, though his article could have used another proof-read and a healthy dose of judicious editing: [...]
An actor at the University of Maryland writes about his experiences performing in a Grand Guignol production on campus: “I’m very thankful for this opportunity to explore such an obscure artform, one that is seldom done anymore. Grand Guignol is such a melodramatic, overly-exaggerated way of theatre. It definitely goes for shock value, using realistic [...]
Perez Hilton has posted the first public glimpse of Johnny Depp in the title roll of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, currently in production in London. Sweeney Todd is the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Grand Guignol Broadway musical about a throat-slashing barber and his meat-pie-making accomplice (Helena Bonham Carter). Variety is reporting the film [...]
