From Page to Stage and Back: The Theatrical Adventures of Writer and Illustrator Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey’s creations as a book artist are distinctive: sparse, oblique story lines paired with intricate, oblique drawings. Yet even his most ardent fans may not know that the author-illustrator of The Beastly Baby, The Doubtful Guest, and The Curious Sofa also directed these and dozens of unpublished texts on stages from Cape Cod to Los Angeles. Gorey’s comrade-in-arts Carol Verburg helped make it happen. Now, with privileged access to his archives, she’s chronicled her friend’s underground career as a dramatist in The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey. Verburg will talk about some of the hidden gems Gorey transformed from script to manuscript and vice versa, and how his lifelong curiosity about form was shaped by his experiments with collaboration.

An in-person and virtual presentation by Carol J. Verburg, playwright, theatre director, and author