ACW
October-14th-2009, 12:04 PM
http://www.molotovtheatre.org/current.html
I am SO seeing this show Saturday night :evilg:
An evening of theater at the Grand Guignol was usually made up of several short plays. These plays alternated between the theater's signature horror plays and fast paced, bawdy sex comedies. This variety gave the effect of, "La douche ecossaise," or, "a hot and cold shower." The sharp contrast between the moods of the different plays helped to make the horror scarier and the comedy funnier in the same way that turning the water back and forth between very hot and very cold causes an intense reaction.
Grand Guignol has been described as a combination of extreme naturalism, melodrama, pornography, and the Well-Made play. For example, a Grand Guignol play employs the Well-Made model of lots of exposition, calculated plot twists that build suspense, and ultimately lead to a climax which is located near the end of the play. However, in this structure, the action and dialogue progress in a fashion that is similar to pornography. We know what the ultimate result is going to be. It is just a question of when and how it will happen. This final result; namely, the Act of Horror illustrates the last two ideas. In a death scene, the victim would die a stylized and melodramatic death, but the means of death are as naturalistic as possible.Also, Grand Guignol ("Big Puppet") Plays had gory special effects.
This will be fun :evilg:
I am SO seeing this show Saturday night :evilg:
An evening of theater at the Grand Guignol was usually made up of several short plays. These plays alternated between the theater's signature horror plays and fast paced, bawdy sex comedies. This variety gave the effect of, "La douche ecossaise," or, "a hot and cold shower." The sharp contrast between the moods of the different plays helped to make the horror scarier and the comedy funnier in the same way that turning the water back and forth between very hot and very cold causes an intense reaction.
Grand Guignol has been described as a combination of extreme naturalism, melodrama, pornography, and the Well-Made play. For example, a Grand Guignol play employs the Well-Made model of lots of exposition, calculated plot twists that build suspense, and ultimately lead to a climax which is located near the end of the play. However, in this structure, the action and dialogue progress in a fashion that is similar to pornography. We know what the ultimate result is going to be. It is just a question of when and how it will happen. This final result; namely, the Act of Horror illustrates the last two ideas. In a death scene, the victim would die a stylized and melodramatic death, but the means of death are as naturalistic as possible.Also, Grand Guignol ("Big Puppet") Plays had gory special effects.
This will be fun :evilg: