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.
* * * * * * * *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.