Edward Gorey On Stage

Author : CJ Verburg
Publisher : Boom-Books
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780983435549

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Edward Gorey On Stage by CJ Verburg Pdf

Most fans of the artist Edward Gorey know him as the author of lavishly drawn, sparely plotted little books 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 plays for actors and puppets--occasionally including himself. This short memoir is an affectionate chronicle of Gorey's theatrical experiments by the friend, neighbor, and artistic collaborator who produced most of them. Illustrated with rare drawings, photographs, script excerpts, film clips, and even music created for Gorey's twenty-odd "entertainments."

Author : Cj Verburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 0983435561

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Edward Gorey On Stage by Cj Verburg Pdf

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, color photographs, script and review excerpts, and live links to film clips of Gorey himself performing onstage.

Author : Clifford Ross,Karen Wilkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040687793

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The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross,Karen Wilkin Pdf

A look at the artist and his work, including his illustrations for T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and the animated credits for the Mystery! series on public television.

Author : Carol Verburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983435510

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Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod by Carol Verburg Pdf

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This book has been replaced by a fuller account of Edward Gorey's theatrical work, Edward Gorey On Stage: Playwright, Director, Designer, Performer: a Multimedia Memoir, 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. From Woods Hole to Provincetown, he wrote, designed, and directed a scintillating set of "entertainments" starring local actors and his own troupe of handmade puppets. Chief producer of Gorey's 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," she chronicles Gorey's adventures in drama, puppetry, opera, and even (briefly) acting.

Author : Karen Wilkin
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080839569

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Elegant Enigmas by Karen Wilkin Pdf

The delightful tales and theatrical drawings of Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) reflect a special kind of genius for what is left unwritten and unseen. In Gorey's vaguely Victorian world of well-tended gardens and opulent estates, smoke-belching factories and fog-shrouded streets, nothing seems certain or quite as it should be. Chaos lurks just beneath life's tidy surface, occasionally erupting in surprising events with unexpected, often horrific consequences. But when tragedy befalls Gorey's quirky cast of characters-hapless waifs, dusty dowagers, scheming tycoons, and unhinged maidens-somehow we can't keep from laughing. Far from casting us into the abyss, Gorey reminds us to contemplate mortality with a smile. In Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey, more than 175 reproductions include samples from Gorey's books, illustrations produced for other writers, theatrical sets and costume designs, and a wealth of individual pieces, many never before published. Sketches, typewritten manuscripts, doodles, and musings join the generous selection of finished works. Published on the occasion of the first retrospective of Edward Gorey's work, at the Brandywine River Museum, Elegant Enigmas is a tribute to a master artist and writer, who with murderously dry humor created a body of work singular in its brilliance and charm.

Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Toy and movable books
ISBN : 0764945416

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Edward Gorey's Dracula by Edward Gorey Pdf

Item is derived from the artist's sets and Tony Award winning costumes for the 1977 Broadway revival production of Hamilton Deane's 1927 dramatization as a play of Bram Stoker's "Dracula."

Author : David Aldrich,Stephen Currens
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN : 0573681368

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Gorey Stories by David Aldrich,Stephen Currens Pdf

"This varied assortment of weird characters and humorous, horrid happenings is drawn from the best of Edward Gorey's illustrated works."--Publisher.

Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0151003130

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The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey Pdf

Being a tale--perhaps an allegory--of deceptive simplicity, with universal meaning for all civilized men and women, Gorey's "The Doubtful Guest" is republished here in a deluxe hardcover edition at an eerily low price.

Author : Mark Dery
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008329822

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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery Pdf

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. ’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0764963430

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Edward Gorey Sticker Book by Anonim Pdf

There are a few things you should know about the artist Edward Gorey, the creator of the creatures in this sticker book! Mr. Gorey (American, 19252000) wrote and illustrated over 100 books; he also designed stage sets and costumes, wrote plays, and created the animated introduction for a TV series calledMystery!He drew a zoosize menagerie of fantastic beastssome creepy, others lovable, others monstrous or just plain oddas well as a slew of peculiar people. His characters are instantly recognizable, because he always drew them in a penandink crosshatch style. Gorey gave his creatures wonderful, playful names; for example, figbash and wuggly ump. His stories often involved mystery and intrigue; people disappearing and other bizarre mishaps. And Edward Gorey loved the ballet and was VERY fond of catssomething you might already have guessed. Lucky you! With this sticker book, you get to play with 50 of Goreys characters from several of his books, includingThe Black Doll,Category,Dancing Cats,The Doubtful Guest,The Epiplectic Bicycle, andThe Gashlycrumb Tinies. There are 185 stickers in all, with images of Count Dracula, iceskating polar bears and alligators, several figbashes in ballet slippers, children astride weird dogs, and more. Have fun stickering! 8 page softcover book with 185 reusable paper stickers (50 different designs) featuring artwork by Edward Gorey.

Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822011851102

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The Broken Spoke by Edward Gorey Pdf

Author : Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Erin Monroe,Robert Greskovic,Arnold Arluke,Kevin Shortsleeve
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691177045

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Gorey's Worlds by Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Erin Monroe,Robert Greskovic,Arnold Arluke,Kevin Shortsleeve Pdf

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Gorey's Worlds, organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art."

Author : Hamilton Deane,John Lloyd Balderston
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573608229

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Dracula by Hamilton Deane,John Lloyd Balderston Pdf

Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel Characters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing,

Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015081739230

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The Gilded Bat by Edward Gorey Pdf

With his typically dark, droll humor, Edward Gorey presents the transformation of Maudie Splaytoe, a girl prone to staring at dead birds, into Mirella Splatova, a chic and mysterious prima ballerina. This woeful tale chronicles an ascent to the peak of fame, followed by an unexpected and dreadful demise. Gorey's exquisitely crafted illustrations of magical ballets, elegant drawing rooms, and stark apartments set the stage for this melodrama starring a slightly peculiar heroine. Faithfully re-released in this superb new edition, The Gilded Bat is one of the hundred or so eerily fanciful illustrated tales created by Edward Gorey (1925-2000) to the delight of his adoring fans. Gorey was also a playwright, an award-winning set and costume designer, and the creator of the animated introductions to the PBS series Mystery!

Author : Edward Gorey
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : UOM:39076002767072

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Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses by Edward Gorey Pdf

"Edward Gorey presents a curious event in two parts. All cats making merry... a butterfly cat (and another one) drifting aimlessly on a summer afternoon, a cat making an entrance, cats taking a barre, an emperor cat, a cat burglar, a cheerleading cat. And others. All murderesses making trouble... Angelica Transome disposing of her infant brother, Natasha Batti-Loupstein poisoning her guests, Lettice Finding, Elspeth Lipsleigh, Miss Emily Toastwater (whose father is no more). And others.