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Join us this Saturday for Victorian Ghost Theatre at the Coney Island Museum!
By Seth Teicher / December 7, 2011
Join Atlas Obscura and Morbid Anatomy this Saturday at 8pm for a night of Victorian Ghost Theatre & Grand Guignol at the Coney Island Museum. Curated by Joanna Ebenstein and John del Gaudio with Master of Ceremonies Lord Whimsey, the Grand Guignol Variety Show will celebrate the mid-19th Century French and Victorian Horror Theatre. Tickets can be purchased here.
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The classically inspired variety show will feature stagings of classic Grand Guignol plays, a toy theater version of Bryusov's "The Sisters," a harmonious and creepy rendition of "Dry Bones," an installaation of classic Grand Guignol posters, and more, all followed by a "private" afterparty (Free Admission) with music played by phonograph and delightfully peculiar cocktails provided complimentary by our friends at Hendrick's Gin.
From its beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris and through its decline in the 1960s, the Theatre of the Grand Guignol gleefully celebrated horror, sex, and fear. Its infamous productions featured innocent victims, mangled beauty, insanity, mutilation, humour, sex, and monstrous depravity in a heady mix that attracted throngs of thrill-seekers from all echelons of society.
By dissecting primal taboos in an unprecedentedly graphic manner, the Grand Guignol became the progenitor of all the blood-spilling, eye-gouging, and limb-hacking “splatter” movies of today.
Admission to the Variety Show is $25. Admission to the afterparty featuring complimentary Hendrick's Gin cocktails is Free.
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There may be a few tickets left. Email Joanna @ morbidanatomy@gmail.com a little later to day to check. The party is free however and we'd love to see you there!
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Anonymous
December 9, 2011
Tickets to le grand guignol are sold out ? Can I buy a poster?
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