Overview
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.