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Quick Facts The Belle of Amherst, Written by ... Based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson from 1830 to 1886, and set in her Amherst, Massachusetts, home, the 1976 play makes use of her work, diaries, and letters to recollect her encounters with the significant people in her life – family, close friends, and acquaintances.
The Belle of Amherst: Directed by Charles S. Dubin. With Julie Harris. Portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson based on her poems, letters and notes.
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BETC’s production of the one-woman show The Belle of Amherst invites you into the mystery of the reclusive woman who wrote those poems you read in high school. She is a woman of magnitude, humor, and feeling– a woman who defied conventional society’s mores in order to find freedom through her pen. Award-winning Playwright Luce writes in ...
Director: Lynn Barbato King. Producer: Abel Searor. Video: Alex DiRienzo. APRIL 16-21, 2021 In her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the reclusive nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson recollects her past through her work, her diaries and letters, and a few encounters with significant people in her life. William Luce’s classic play shows us both ...
Nov 15, 2017 · Quoting from an 1845 letter to a classmate at Amherst Academy, Dickinson proudly pronounces: “I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my seventeenth year.”. With a sardonic twinkle in her eye, Fry reminds us how uncommonly funny Dickinson’s observations can be: How dreary—to be Somebody! How public—like a Frog—.
“A fine miniature done with the smallest brushes on pure, clean linen, THE BELLE OF AMHERST is an enthralling evening.” —Washington Post. “William Luce is every inch a playwright—there is not a false line, not a single awkward transition in the evening that he has provided for Emily Dickinson.” —National Observer.
