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Title: PERFORMING GRAND-GUIGNOL
PLAYING THE THEATRE OF HORROR
By: Richard J. Hand, Michael Wilson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0859899969
ISBN 13: 9780859899963
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
Pub. date: 1 September, 2015
Series: Exeter Performance Studies
Pages: 320
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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 Rene Berton and Andre 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: University of Exeter Press
Returns: Returnable
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