This is a mood board for the upcoming Grand Guignol production to take place December 10th at Coney Island.
It will give you a sense of what is inspiring us as we put the evening together.

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In words: An ode to The Grand Guignol, Pariasian horror theatre of the late 19th and early 20th century. (More on that here).
What does that mean to us? The Uncanny, victorian horror, arcane media, mystery, illusion, spectacle, sex and death, the tension between elegance and horror,
over-plush Victoriana, pre-cinema, gothic painting,early silent film, phrenology, hypnosis, mesmerism, medicine shows,
tableau vivants, The Folies Bergère, occult tinged magic shows, Edgar Allen Poe, Night of the Hunter,
phantasmagoria, ghost illusions, hysteria, toy theatre, puppets, optical tricks.

For more on Grand Guignol, click this link.