January 2018 – Great War Theatre

Horror on the London Stage: The Grand Guignol Season of 1915 by Helen Brooks

Posted January 26, 2018 by Helen Brooks

We’ve been uncovering an incredible range of different war-themed plays as part of the Great War Theatre project but one of the discoveries which has surprised me the most is the season of French Grand Guignol plays which were performed in London in the summer of 1915. Initially I came across these through finding a… continued →

War plays in the Netherlands 1914-1918 by Dr. Ad van der Logt

Posted January 16, 2018 by Helen Brooks

Did you know that more than 40 war plays were written or performed in the Netherlands during the Great War? That’s an average of 8 each year! The first reactions Already in August 1914 the famous Dutch socialist playwright Herman Heijermans (1864-1924) wrote three sketches: Brief in den schemer (Letter in twilight), De buikspreker (The… continued →

Month: January 2018