| 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 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6" W x 9" (0.37 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |