{"id":65838,"date":"2011-12-18T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/anatomy\/grand-guignol-spectacular-in-the-huffington-post.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:13:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:13:36","slug":"grand-guignol-spectacular-in-the-huffington-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/grand-guignol-spectacular-in-the-huffington-post-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Grand Guignol Spectacular in The Huffington Post!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK CITY -- When the rides stop running at Coney Island each year in October, the area takes on a desolate and decidedly creepy character. That's all fine and well with the Coney Island Museum<\/a>, which on Saturday night hosted the Grand Guignol Variety Show<\/a>, an homage to the eponymous Parisian production that specialized in theatrical gore, sex and violence from 1897 to 1962.<\/p>

The event, co-sponsored by the Morbid Anatomy Library<\/a> and Atlas Obscura<\/a>, featured two original plays from the Grand Guignol's golden era. They give a sense of what the theater was like in its heyday: In one, a spurned woman mutilates her former fiance with sulphuric acid, only to meet the same fate at his hand. In another, a man's unrequited love for the wife of his closest friend drives him to cast a hypnotist's spell on her. When she's tragically killed in a train crash, the spell's power remains. Disfigured and grotesque, she returns from beyond the grave to be at his side. Horrified, he kills himself...
--\"Coney Island Museum Hosts Creepy Homage To Victorian Horror Theater<\/a>,\" The Huffington Post<\/span>, Rachel Tepper<\/p><\/blockquote>

Read the whole article--a review of Saturday's Grand Guingol Variety Show<\/a>--in today's Huffington Pos<\/span>t by clicking here<\/a>. Please be indulgent when you read my quotes, keeping in mind that it was my birthday and I had had a few drinks by the time this interview took place...<\/p>

All images are from the slide-show linked to the article and depict, from top to bottom:<\/p>

  1. MC Lord Whimsy<\/a> with the cast of The Strange Case of Me Tarzan directed by G F Newland<\/a>: Nick Demko-Pavese and the \"bathing beauties\" Megan Fitzpatrick<\/a>, Rachel Rideout, Christine Colby and Lady Aye<\/a><\/li>
  2. Christine Colby in her Skeleton Dance costume<\/li>
  3. Mentalist Les Baird doing one of his amazing feats with a volunteer from the audience<\/li>
  4. Scene from L’Amant de la Morte <\/span>(The Lover of the Dead), original Grand Guignol script from 1925 directed by Melissa Roth<\/li>
  5. Scene from Baiser dans la nuit<\/span> (The Final Kiss), original Grand Guignol script from 1912, directed by Meg Moseley<\/a><\/li>
  6. Shot of the crowd thronging the gin bar, featuring cameos of Melissa Milgrom<\/a>, Eric Bobelin, Aaron Beebe<\/a>, and lots of unfamiliar faces<\/li><\/ol>
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