'The Belle of Amherst by William Luce'

Set between 1830 and 1886 at her home in Massachusetts, this one-woman show takes us through some of Emily’s most significant encounters with important characters in her life.

The Belle of Amherst invites you into the mystery of the reclusive woman who wrote those poems you read in high school. She was a woman of magnitude, humor, and feeling– a woman who defied conventional society’s mores in order to find freedom through her pen.

Award-winning Playwright Luce writes in his 1976 Author’s Notes for The Belle of Amherst:
“The essential Emily of my play is secretly saying to the audience: ‘Pardon my insanity, Pardon my jubilation to Nature, my terror of midnight, my childlike wonder at love, my white renunciation. Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.’