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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     shy,-withdrawn woman who 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 
     
    
   
   
    
     ambitions, disappointments, 
     
     seems 
     
    
   
   
    
     “I couldn’t 
     
    
   
   
    
     visitor 
     
    
   
   
    
     loves, sorrows? It 
     
     improbable. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There was also an incon-. 
     
     sistency in the portrayal of 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ByHGARY LARSON 
     
    
   
   
    
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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 
     
    
   
   
    
     live added pleasure to 5 
     
    
   
   
    
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Committ 
     
     a succe 
     
    
   
   
    
     By John Dougan 
     
    
   
   
    
     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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The acting was verl 
     
    

    
     - the setting realistic, ' 
     
    

    
     comedy quite satisfyixl 
     
    

    
     The play was a suc 
     
    

    
     was evidenced by Eh 
     
    

    
     turnout of students a 
     
     laughter. 
     
    
   
   
    
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