[Capdist-announce] Praise for The Belle of Amherst!

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"The Belle of Amherst" was reviewed at last week's preview!  Opens tonight!

Marsden Epworth writes, in the Lakeville Journal:

It's a small world, Emily Dickinson's - her father's house in Amherst and the family's
garden.

"I never had to go anywhere else to find my Paradise," she tells us. After all, 
she lives with possibility, poetry, imagination, so we believe her.  "Paradise is
within," Dickinson says.

Still, she pains us. We are terribly afraid for her. Hope and disappointment are
 linked, always.

Dickinson, dressed all in white, the bridal hue of her life, is played by Susan 
Fullerton in Taconic Stage Company's production of "The Belle of Amherst," William
Luce's one-woman play based on the poet's work and letters.

Before the gothic altar in St. John in the Wilderness, a 19th-century Episcopal 
church in Copake Falls, NY, is a prim white desk and chairs and the reedy thin Fullerton,
who tells us of Dickinson's delight in being Amherst's star eccentric: shy, remote,
sometimes puckish, flying upstairs, two steps at a time to escape curious visitors.
It's a game for her. She admits it freely to us, her audience. Of course in this
 severe household ruled by father, Emily is not the only oddball. Her sister Lavinia
will not wear black stockings for fear they will poison her.

This is a lengthy and keen rumination on art, isolation and courage. Emily, writing
1,775 poems in her 53 years, saw just 7, her love letters to the world, published.
And though she anticipated the attentions of young suitors, not one seemly fellow
turned up. Later in life she speaks of affairs with married men and we wonder if
 this is aimless hope, delusion, or, more sadly, so.

And still she writes her tidy, startling, compressed poems. And we are thrilled.
 The language is exquisite, and the stories she gives us, telling. And tender.

One of the happier stories is about the night her forbidding and puritanical father
caught her writing poetry in the middle of the night.

He had rules about going to bed and waking early.

She read one poem to him. And then another. And another.

Then he told her she could write in the night and sleep late. Till 8 a.m.

Fullerton makes a fine Emily, ecstatic about life and nature and unable to let go
of the possibilities.
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Performed at the lovely, historic gothic revival church in Copake Falls
St John in the Wilderness
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