Edward Gorey’s Dracula Toy Theatre

Description

Edward Gorey created the sets and costume designs for a version of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel that ran for nearly 1000 Broadway performances.

This toy theatre is based on his award-winning three-act Broadway production of Dracula. The action takes place in a sanatorium near the town of Purley, somewhere in the English countryside.

The die-cut, scored, and perforated foldups and foldouts include:

3 pop-up eerie stage sets “16 x 12” (the library is shown above)
Act 1: The Library at Dr Seward’s Sanatorium
Act 2: The Boudoir of Lucy Seward
Act 3: A Vault

Cast of 8 (15 figures in all)

Stage furniture

4 page booklet – with exceptionally simple illustrated assembly instructions, a synopsis of the play, and brief notes on Edward Gorey (1925 – 2000) and his many magical creations