EDWARD GOREY ON STAGE. PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, DESIGNER, PERFORMER: A MULTIMEDIA MEMOIR - Tecno-Libro

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, co