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Edward Gorey On Stage: Playwright, Director, Designer, Performer: a Multimedia Memoir
Contributor(s): Verburg, Cj (Author)

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ISBN: 0983435561     ISBN-13: 9780983435563
Publisher: Boom-Books
OUR PRICE: $14.24  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2012
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- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.37 lbs) 88 pages
 
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Renowned as an artist, author, and godfather of Goth, Edward Gorey was first and last a dramatist. This ingenious multimedia memoir is a homage to his famous pop-up books, and a rare backstage tour of his lifelong involvement in theater. From Harvard, where Gorey and roommate Frank O'Hara helped found the Poets' Theatre, to New York, where he designed the Tony-award-winning costumes and sets for Frank Langella's Dracula, to Cape Cod, where he steered his troupe of actors and puppets through twenty-odd original "entertainments," Edward Gorey delighted in uncoiling weird little stories into four-dimensional mini-dramas. Some were his familiar alphabet books and tales such as The Insect God and The Curious Sofa; others, such as Blithering Christmas, he composed specifically for venues from Provincetown to Cotuit to Woods Hole. This affectionate recap by his longtime friend and collaborator CJ Verburg is a great gift to any Edward Gorey fan: full of rare original drawings and notes, color photographs, script and review excerpts, and live links to film clips of Gorey himself performing onstage.
 
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