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Edward Gorey is remembered as the master of the macabre picture book — but the stage was his other great love. In Edward Gorey On Stage: A Multimedia Memoir, CJ Verburg offers an affectionate chronicle of Gorey’s theatrical experiments, written by the friend, neighbor, and artistic collaborator who produced most of them.
Gorey (1925–2000), renowned as an artist, author, and godfather of Goth, poured his strange and wonderful sensibility into some twenty-odd “entertainments” staged on Cape Cod: plays he wrote, directed, designed, and sometimes performed in. Verburg — who worked alongside him as an academic turned theatrical producer — recalls the puppets, the hand-painted sets, the fur coats and sneakers, and the sheer inventiveness of a man who treated the theater as another kind of book.
Illustrated and intimate, this short memoir is a backstage pass to Gorey’s lesser-known world. For Gorey devotees and theater lovers alike, it reveals an artist at play — and at his most delightfully himself.
Edward Gorey is remembered as the master of the macabre picture book — but the stage was his other great love. In Edward Gorey On Stage: A Multimedia Memoir, CJ Verburg offers an affectionate chronicle of Gorey’s theatrical experiments, written by the friend, neighbor, and artistic collaborator who produced most of them.
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Gorey (1925-2000), renowned as an artist, author, and godfather of Goth, poured his strange and wonderful sensibility into some twenty-odd “entertainments” staged on Cape Cod: plays he wrote, directed, designed, and sometimes performed in. Verburg — who worked alongside him as an academic turned theatrical producer — recalls the puppets, the hand-painted sets, the fur coats and sneakers, and the sheer inventiveness of a man who treated the theater as another kind of book.
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Illustrated and intimate, this short memoir is a backstage pass to Gorey’s lesser-known world. For Gorey devotees and theater lovers alike, it reveals an artist at play — and at his most delightfully himself.
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