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Miss Emily
Dickinson
became the local eccentric of her small
Massachusetts town - not its belle, as she'd hoped. Wearing
"bridal white" and rarely leaving her father's house for 56
years, she spent her hours secretly recording her private thoughts
in
over 1,700 epigrammatic poems. They were discovered only after her
death and have since become some of the most enduring and endearing
verses in American literature. And Miss Emily's become an American
miracle! |
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This daguerreotype is the
only known photograph of Emily Dickinson.
Courtesy of Amherst College Library |
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Me
- come! My dazzled face
In such a shinning place!
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- Emily
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In
the Tony Award-Winning The Belle of Amherst William Luce draws heavily on the poems, letters and first hand accounts of Emily
Dickinson to sculpt a
one-woman play that is an inspiring, poignant and truthful biography of
one
of America's greatest literary women. |
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find the light within -- that is poetry' Those words written
by Emily Dickinson might also describe
the art of acting. Wadkins
caresses each of Dickinson's words, bringing them to life with loving
care. " |
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- The Oregonian |
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Through
scintillating weavings of poetry, letters, dramatic flashbacks and
narrative, we are transported to the people and events that shaped
her secluded life. Miss Emily with
the wit and guile of a master of words, shares with us her burst
of creative brilliance as she pens her exquisite poetry and
unfolds the mysteries of her eccentric love affair with language. |
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Mary
Wadkins (right) with
Tony-Award Winning playwright
William
Luce |
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| "[Emily
Dickinson's] private life, thoughts and dreams and her poetic genius
have been strikingly and movingly captured by William Luce... a touching
and steadily absorbing evening even to those who know
so little about
the superb poet." |
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- New York Post |
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