Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots

Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots - Paperback

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Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots - Paperback

Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots - Paperback

by Carol Verburg
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Book Overview

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This little book originated as the catalog for a museum exhibit of Edward Gorey's stage work. For a full account of his multifaceted dramatic career, see The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories, available in both print and e-book formats.

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How to classify the extraordinary Edward Gorey? Artist? Writer? Dark humorist?

What about Dramatist?

It was in theatre that Gorey's public career started and finished. As a postwar Harvard University student, he and his friends Frank O'Hara, Alison Lurie, John Ashbery, and others created the legendary Poets' Theatre. After winning a Tony Award on Broadway for Frank Langella's Dracula, Gorey left New York for Cape Cod, where he wrote, designed, and directed "entertainments" starring local actors and his own troupe of handmade puppets. In this short illustrated monograph, the chief producer of Gorey's entertainments -- his friend and neighbor Carol Verburg -- tells how he did it.

ISBN9780983435518
Author Carol Verburg
PublisherBoom-Books
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages32
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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By Carol Verburg

About Carol Verburg

Carol Verburg wrote her first novella at age eleven and won her first playwriting prize at thirteen. After staging her first rock musical in college, she worked as an academic editor, freelance author, boat builder, and the chief producer of her friend Edward Gorey's theatrical entertainments on Cape Cod. Their long collaboration is chronicled in The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories. It also inspired her play Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians, and her neo-Golden Age Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted.

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