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Review by Sharon Leighton

one-woman show, The Belle of Amherst, starring Laurel Smyth, was per- formed Nov. 7 at the Steele Auditorium.

Smyth’s acting was a plea— sure to watch as~she por- trayed the sorrows, struggles, and triumphs ‘of America’s eccentric poet, Emily Dickinson.

The stage set was well- designed and well-executed. Two small rooms suggested not only the Dickinson home- stead, but the entire Victorian Age. Great attention was paid to background detail such as the toy piano with brocade trim, the conch shell, the family Bible, the daguer- rotypes ' on the wall. The rooms were completely en- closed, the only openings, other than to the audience being a window on the garden and a door leading to the rest of the house. This highlighted the enclosed nature» of Emily Dickinson’s life.

Director Erskine Smith was successful in using stage movement to. maintain interest, an undoubtedly dif- ﬁcult job in a one-woman show with little action.

The 'onlv serious flaws in the play derive from William Luce’s script. The entire play was based on the idea that the audience was a gentleman come to tea with Dickinson, 'who confided to him the story of her life. This dramatic device was pro— foundly unsuitable. People who will pour out the story

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Th B ll f A h t' v e e e O m ers . a review ” of their lives to any sym- pathetic listener do exist; but was Dickinson one of them? The play presented her as a shy,-withdrawn woman who looked down on the village gossips; would this woman have chattered nonstop for an hour and a half? Her own poetry, quoted in the play, presented her as a sensitive person who experienced life in silence, whose only “letter to the world” was her poetry. bear to aloud, the racket shamed me so,” she wrote. Would this woman have told a casual the truth of her

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the poet as both a we capable of deep devotion a fool continually car away by adolescent infa tions. Perhaps a study of life and work does not this issue clear, but the i would have been more e tive if either the playw or the director had dec the question. . While the plentiful i lacing of the script Dickinson’s poems was

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members of the audie others felt that it slowed movement. r

Luce did succeed in I turing the unhappiness o poet’s life and the cour humour and sensitivity w she brought to it, a w while achievement.

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he scene was set in average board room action centered around : table where decision supposed to be made. The play dealt wit committee’s unique abi discuss and come up decisions about nothi all. Its members'hav ferent personalities and butes which serve as a for their lack of purpos Colonel Mustard, trayed by Jeff McGee vided some comical by sleeping and s. most of his time in th room. Flann Obrien. by Kevin Walker"a%~'

vided comedy by inebriated, outspoku‘ opionated.

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