Im doing this really interesting Emily Dickinson performance in late September in which the audience members move one by one around Amherst. I think its going to be quite a beautiful, soul-reaching event. Ticket information will be on the Emily Dickinson Museum website. Heres more from the director: Before You Became Improbable An immersive theatrical journey based on Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters to T.W. Higginson By John Bechtold, produced in partnership with the Emily Dickinson Museum Dates & Location - September 25-27, commencing at the Emily Dickinson Museum. Please note that participants will be journeying through varied terrain throughout downtown Amherst for much of the performance. Each journey lasts approximately one hour. At journey’s end, audience members will convene in the Dickinson parlor where they will share insights and experiences with the playwright and each other. A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone... After eight years of letters and poems exchanged between the two of them, T.W. Higginson arrived one day in Amherst to finally meet his elusive friend, Emily Dickinson. Before You Became Improbable reimagines the day of that meeting and allows the audience members to explore it in an intimate, personal way. Join us at the Emily Dickinson Museum September 25-27 for an evening of theater, perhaps unlike any you’ve experienced before. Equipped only with a pair of headphones, you will embark on an immersive journey in which Amherst past and present will blur together - with the poetry and prose of Emily Dickinson to guide you. I have wished for you …and had you an hour unengrossed, it would be almost priceless. Throughout your one-hour journey, which begins and ends at the Dickinson Homestead, you will be guided by the sounds, sights and people around you. As you travel through a secretive route through Amherst en route to the Dickinson grounds, you will uncover stories of a woman who would “not cross her Father’s ground to any house or town” and captured the imagination of the man who served as her literary confidante for the rest of her life. Designed as an experience for one or two people at a time, you should come prepared with comfortable walking shoes, the willingness to walk for much of the show and a venturesome spirit. Upon your return to the Museum, you may share your experiences with fellow travelers and the playwright in Emily Dickinson’s parlor. I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:07:19 +0000
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