Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod Book
Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots
How to classify the extraordinary Edward Gorey? Artist? Dark humorist? Writer?
What about Dramatist?
Theatre is where Goreys artistic career started and finished. At Harvard he was a core member of Cambridges legendary Poets Theatre. After winning a Tony Award on Broadway for Frank Langellas Dracula, he left New York for Cape Cod. From Woods Hole to Provincetown, Gorey wrote, designed, and directed a scintillating set of entertainments starring local actors and his own troupe of handmade puppets.
The chief producer of Goreys plays was his friend and neighbor Carol Verburg. Now she tells how he did it. From The Helpless Doorknob and The Gilded Bat to Horror at Hamstrung Hall and Porptiga, this little book chronicles their adventures on the stages of Cape Cod.
Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod: Puppets, People, Places, & Plots
How to classify the extraordinary Edward Gorey? Artist? Dark humorist? Writer?
What about Dramatist?
Theatre is where Goreys artistic career started and finished. At Harvard he was a core member of Cambridges legendary Poets Theatre. After winning a Tony Award on Broadway for Frank Langellas Dracula, he left New York for Cape Cod. From Woods Hole to Provincetown, Gorey wrote, designed, and directed a scintillating set of entertainments starring local actors and his own troupe of handmade puppets.
The chief producer of Goreys plays was his friend and neighbor Carol Verburg. Now she tells how he did it. From The Helpless Doorknob and The Gilded Bat to Horror at Hamstrung Hall and Porptiga, this little book chronicles their adventures on the stages of Cape Cod.
