13 Facts About Grand Guignol

Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol – known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris (7, cite Chaptal).

Grand Guignol's theatre gave Metenier a basic model to use for The Grand Guignol Theatre.

Grand Guignol wrote at least 100 plays for the Grand Guignol, such as The Old Woman, The Ultimate Torture, A Crime in the Mad House and more.

Grand Guignol collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theatre's favourite and frequently recurring themes.

Grand Guignol contributed his expertise in special effects and scenery to the theatre's distinctive style.

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Grand Guignol shifted the theatre's subject matter, focusing performances not on gory horror but psychological drama.

The horrors depicted at Grand Guignol were generally not supernatural; rather these plays often explored altered states like insanity, hypnosis, or panic.

Grand Guignol is seen "pac[ing] nervously" and "jumping on [a] desk and gesticulating".

Grand Guignol flourished briefly in London in the early 1920s under the direction of Jose Levy, where it attracted the talents of Sybil Thorndike and Noel Coward, and a series of short English "Grand Guignol" films was made at the same time, directed by Fred Paul.

Grand Guignol was revived in London in 1945, under the direction of Frederick Witney, where it ran for two seasons at the Granville Theatre.

Grand Guignol's acting troupe, The Queens Players, have produced six mainstage productions of Grand Guignol plays, and Mazda is writing new plays in the classic Guignol style.

Abbott remarks how "the show's artistic design and display of the corpses calls to mind images from Grand Guignol theatre, featuring weekly macabre images such as a human totem pole made out of dismembered corpses".

Grand Guignol plays a prominent role in Ib Melchior's WWII novel Code Name: Grand Guignol, in which a small group of actors from the theatre team up with the French resistance and use their special skills to infiltrate Hitler's construction of a secret weapon, the V-3 cannon.