Guignol in a sentence

Also based in London, Le Nouveau Guignol form the UK's only permanent repertory Grand Guignol company; plays within their current repertoire include French Guignol classics such as "The Final Kiss", "Tics..

Although often thought of as children's entertainment, Guignol's sharp wit and linguistic verve have always been appreciated by adults as well, as shown by the motto of a prominent Lyon troupe: "Guignol amuses children… and witty adults".

Liner notes of Grand Guignol CD Washington, D.C.-based Molotov Theatre Group, established in 2007, is dedicated to preserving and exploring the aesthetic of the Grand Guignol.

The use in French of "guignol" as an insult meaning "buffoon" is a curious misnomer, as Guignol is clever, courageous and generous; his inevitable victory is always the triumph of good over evil.

One massacre bleeds into the next like a rerun of some sick Nikelodean rendition of the Grand Guignol.

It was a calling card; the moment at which he was fully able to indulge his macabre, goth-boy, grand guignol vision.

Stephen Sondheim's musical, rooted in horror aesthetics and grand guignol, is set in a grimy 1840s London.

So enduring is Guignol’s satire that a television show, “Les Guignols d’Info,” featuring life-size France’s Canal+ channel for 20 years before ending last year.

Suddenly, Guignol sprang up, waving his arms and pointing around the theater.

Or maybe you saw it in more prosaic terms, a run-of-the-mill marital spat with a Grand Guignol twist.

August–October, 2013 The Xoregos Performing Company presented Danse Macabre, a contemporary tribute to Grand Guignol at Theater for the New City in New York City.

Danse Macabre was a program of four plays of psychological and physical terror, one humorous work and a dance, in keeping with Grand Guignol's programming history.

Guignol is the main character in a French puppet show which has come to bear his name.

He developed characters closer to the daily lives of his Lyon audience, first Gnafron, a wine-loving cobbler, and in 1808 Guignol.

He wrote at least 100 plays for the Grand Guignol and collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theatre's frequently recurring themes.

In Interview with the Vampire (1994), the "Theatre de Vampires" (and the film itself, to some degree) invoked the Grand Guignol style, perhaps to further remove the undead performers from humanity, morality and class.

Le Nouveau Guignol took part in the London Horror Festival alongside Theatre of the Damned at Courtyard Theatre in November 2011.

Osborne describes the scenes that follow—Cavaradossi's interrogation, his torture, Scarpia's sadistic tormenting of Tosca—as Puccini's musical equivalent of grand guignol to which Cavaradossi's brief "Vittoria!

Other characters, including Guignol's wife Madelon and the gendarme Flageolet soon followed, but these are never much more than foils for the two heroes.

Theatre closing Audiences waned in the years following World War II, and the Grand Guignol closed its doors in 1962.