238 - The Grand Guignol

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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A look at the brief but influential "life" of the Grand Guignol theater, a Paris stage venue that specialized in gore and terror. We interview Professor Richard Hand, who has co-authored four volumes about this amazing little production company that for a brief while made much of true-crime and visceral nightmarish plots to present gore, horror and terror to Paris audiences. With less than 300 seats but with thousands of performances, the screams that came from its stage still echo through the world of theater to this very day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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