Hello, and welcome to the Season 3, Episode 15 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast!
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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 15: Waxing Dramatic
S03E15: Madame Tussaud and her famed museum of lifelike wax figures, and Grand Guignol, a pioneering theater at the forefront of shockingly realistic body horror.
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Marie Tussaud’s exceptional talent brought a spark of (kind of creepy) life to the art and craft of creating wax portraiture, inviting the public to mingle with likenesses of the famous. The masterful craftspeople at Grand Guignol, by contrast, brought a truly dramatic spark of death–and an in-house doctor–to audiences looking for a different kind of thrill.Support the show:
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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials:
Madame Tussaud:
- Madame Tussauds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Tussauds
- Marie Tussaud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tussaud
- The Day Madame Tussauds Caught Fire And Most Of The Waxworks Melted: https://londonist.com/london/history/the-day-madame-tussauds-caught-fire-and-most-of-the-statues-melted
- From the archive, 19 March 1925: Madame Tussaud’s on fire, Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 19 March 1925: https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/apr/28/madame-tussauds-fire
- Madame Tussaud: the astounding tale of survival behind the woman who made history: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/04/madame-tussaud-edward-carey-little
- History: https://www.madametussauds.com/london/information/our-history/
- Marie Tussaud: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Tussaud
Grand Guignol:
- 1957 NYT Article https://www.nytimes.com/1957/03/17/archives/fading-horrors-of-the-grand-guignol-after-sixty-years-the-paris-the.html
- BBC Article https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190304-why-the-grand-guignol-was-so-shocking
- Atlas Obscura Article: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-findesiecle-paris-theater-whose-performances-were-literally-torturous
