Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror

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 Ren� Berton and Andr� 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. Additional ISBNs 0859891135, 0859899950, 9780859891134, 9780859899956Read More Performing Grand-Guignol: Playing the Theatre of Horror 1st Edition is written by Richard J. Hand; Michael Wilson and published by University of Exeter Press. ISBNs for Performing Grand-Guignol are 9780859891141, 0859891143 and the print ISBNs are 9780859891134, 0859891135. Additional ISBNs include 0859891135, 0859899950, 9780859891134, 9780859899956.