Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice and Head of Media, Film and TV Studies at University of East Anglia. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Richard has written extensively on adaptation, horror studies, European theatre, radio drama, and popular culture. He has also worked as a writer, director and performer for theatre and radio. His practice-based research activities include experimental live re-creations of The Train of Terror! (2005), The Terrifying Tale of Sweeney Todd! (2008), Noel Coward's The Better Half (2008), and Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound (2011).
Together with Mike Wilson he has delivered workshops on Grand Guignol, and presented Grand Guignol performances at universities, international conferences and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Richard and Michael are the authors of Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (2002), London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror (2007) and Performing Grand-Guignol - Playing the Theatre of Horror (2016), all published by UEP.

SECTION 1

Chapter 1: A History of London's Grand Guignol

Chapter 2: London's Grand Guignol and Issues of Genre and Writing

Chapter 3: London's Grand Guignol: Performers and Performing

Chapter 4: London's Grand Guignol: Censorship and Reception

Chapter 5: London's Grand Guignol and the Reviewers

Chapter 6: The Aftermath and Legacy of London's Grand Guignol

SECTION 2

Ten Plays of London's Grand Guignol

Eight O'Clock by Reginald Berkeley

A Man in Mary's Room by Gladys Unger

Private Room Number 6 by André de Lorde

The Person Unknownby H. F. Maltby

Latitude 15°Southby Victor MacClure

The Old Women by Christopher Holland

The Nutcracker Suite by Eliot Crawshay-Williams

The Sisters' Tragedy by Richard Hughes

The Better Half by Noël Coward

I Want To Go Home by H. F. Maltby

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 London's Grand Guignol, 1920-22Appendix 2 The Complete Repertoire of London's Grand Guignol, 1920-22

Appendix 3 Extract from Oh, Hell!!! A 'Revuette' by Reginald Arkell and Russell Thorndike

Bibliography