Editing Grand Guignol (section)

==Closure==
Audiences waned in the years following World War II, and the Grand Guignol closed its doors in 1962. Management attributed the closure in part to the fact that the theater's faux horrors had been eclipsed by the actual events of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] two decades earlier. "We could never equal [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]]," said its final director, Charles Nonon. "Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible. Now we know that these things, and worse, are possible in reality."<ref name=REALITY />

The Grand Guignol building still exists. It is occupied by the {{ill|International Visual Theatre|fr}}, a company devoted to presenting plays in [[sign language]].