Lady Sia McDonnell and Mr. Kitten Serpente are looking to showcase some of our talented residents in an evening's musicale. Let us know what performance talents you have and we will start planning. This could be poetry, music, medical and mechanical marvels, magick.
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LadySia
MemberPosted 7 months ago # -
I'd like to see some Grand Guignol. That would be a first in SL if it's done properly. :)
Posted 7 months ago # -
Scayde Steamweaver
MemberThe Theatre du Grand-Guignol--which means literally the "big puppet show"--took its name from the popular French puppet character Guignol, whose original incarnation was as an outspoken social commentator--a spokesperson for the canuts, or silk workers, of Lyon. Early Guignol puppet shows were frequently censored by Napoleon III's police force.
Oscar Metenier was himself a frequent target of censorship for having the audacity to depict a milieu which had never before appeared on stage--that of vagrants, street kids, prostitutes, criminals, and "apaches," as street loafers and con artists were called at the time--and moreover for allowing those characters to express themselves in their own language. One of the Grand-Guignol's first plays, Metenier's Mademoiselle Fifi (based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant), which was temporarily shut down by police censors, presented the first prostitute on stage; his subsequent play, Lui!, united a whore and a criminal in the enclosed space of a hotel room. Metenier was Guignol grown up, or grandi... The Theatre du Grand-Guignol was an immediate success. Without realizing it, Metenier had laid the first stone in the edifice of the Grand-Guignol repertoire, which was to last for over half a century. Little by little and almost accidentally, a new genre was born.
Metenier was succeeded as director in 1898 by Max Maurey, who was unknown in artistic circles but had hands-on experience in the theater. It was Maurey who, from 1898 to 1914, turned the Theatre du Grand-Guignol into a house of horror. He measured the success of a play by the number of people who fainted during its performance, and, to attract publicity, hired a house doctor to treat the more fainthearted spectators. It was also Maurey who discovered the novelist and playwright Andre de Lorde--"the Prince of Terror." Under the influence of de Lorde (who collaborated on several plays with his therapist, the experimental psychologist Alfred Binet), insanity became the Grand-Guignolesque theme par excellence. At a time when insanity was just beginning to be scientifically studied and individual cases catalogued, the Grand-Guignol repertoire explored countless manias and 'special tastes': Andre de Lorde and Leo Marches's L'Homme de la Nuit (The Man of the Night), for example, presented a necrophiliac, who strangely resembled Sergeant Bertrand, a man sentenced in 1849 for violating tombs and mutilating corpses. L'Horrible Passion (The Horrible Passion), by Andre de Lorde and Henri Bauche, depicted a young nanny who strangled the children in her care. (Like Metenier, de Lorde was often a target of censorship, particularly in England where scheduled touring productions of two of his plays were canceled by the Lord Chamberlain's censors. The theater of the time, which delighted in vaudeville and bourgeois settings, could not abide the sight of blood or corpses on stage.)
Posted 7 months ago # -
LadySia
MemberBlast I did already post this but...
This sounds wonderful! Though I think someone else will need to sponsor the event rather than Kitten and I, but of course we should make an appearance as is only proper for social events.
I can so see an evil puppeteer/wax work sculpter, a la Madame Tussaud's... working somewhere in town.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Zee
MemberI have been working on a performance piece that I would love to do with Rowan, a take on the video Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie where a demented man, kind of like a crazy carnival barker, brings a lovely young woman to life for his own amusement and then has her perform; sing, dance, etc for the entertainment, and horror of the audience.If you are serious about it Sia, let me know and I would love to do my part my performing in the show!
Posted 7 months ago # -
LadySia
MemberAS I told Zee, this sounds delightful. We have a beautiful performance venue in the Hall. Keep your minds open. It can been anything from a painting exhibition to performance, to science lecture.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Alexander
Member*bump to see if there is still interest*
Alexander likes poetry and writes them too... Still someone needed for this thingy? ;)Posted 4 months ago # -
LadySia
MemberHey Alexander, yes there is still interest! I would be happy to have you amongst the performers. And please anyone else let me know. I think I'm going to start nudging ic as well.
Posted 4 months ago # -
Alexander
MemberWell... I am only in London since a few days... hehe, so I don't have many connections yet! IC'ly Alex doesn't even know of such event... but he likes his cultural side!
Posted 4 months ago # -
LadySia
MemberThat's ok! I haven't met you yet anyhow, and there's no set timeframe for this, just that its something I want to do. Mini-performance pieces. Anything from music, poetry, paintings, dramatic readings.
The Grand Guignol is happening, being organized by Celia
Posted 4 months ago # -
Alexander
MemberGood! Good! I will be quite often around in Town. As this is the only place I RP and rarely use SL for something else than RP... :)
But... I do have me real life and stuff and work in shifts :( Dang! I hate that... but yeah, we should meet one time soon... let's see when fate decides upon us!Looking forward to an official outlet for my creativity and usage of words ^^,
Posted 4 months ago #
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