Roadside Theater is thrilled to host Giessen's Keller Theatre touring production of "The Belle of Amherst."
Performances: Two shows only: March 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Miss Emily Dickinson is brought to life by Kerri Pangman in this Tony-award winning play by William Luce. 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.
The Belle of Amherst 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. 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 shares with us her bursts of creative brilliance as she pens her exquisite poetry and unfolds the mysteries of her eccentric love affair with language.
"[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." - New York Post
Prices: Free to our Season Ticket holders! All others: $12/€10 adults; $10/€8 students & seniors; $8/€6 for children 11yrs and under. We regret children under 5 cannot be admitted to any performance. Please make your reservations early. Non-military ID cardholders MUST provide their access information when they make their reservations.
