NOTE: This short multimedia e-memoir from 2011 is no longer in print. For a full, updated account of Edward Gorey's unique creations for the stage, including newly released artwork, texts, and photographs from the Gorey Archives, see Carol Verburg's The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories (Chronicle Books, 2024).

Most fans of Edward Gorey know him as the author of intricately cross-hatched little tales in which hapless characters come to unpleasant ends. But if you happened to be in the right place at the right time, you might know him as a dramatist. From Boston's Poets' Theatre to New York's Broadway, and from Bourne to Provincetown on Cape Cod, Edward Gorey applied his distinctive wit to writing and directing "entertainments" for puppets and live actors--occasionally including himself. This affectionate chronicle of Gorey's theatrical experiments, by the friend and neighbor who produced most of them, comprises color snapshots, drawings, snippets of scripts and reviews, and live links to a range of sources and resources, including original music composed for his shows and a brief stage appearance by Gorey himself.

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• Publication Date: January 7, 2014
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• Print Length: 89 Pages
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