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The Belle of Amherst
The Pewter Plough Playhouse will present "The Belle of Amherst" by
William Luce, weekends during the month of July. The production
stars Cambrian Emma Duncan in a one-woman show telling of the life and
work of Emily Dickinson. Cambria's remarkable young actress will make
her Playhouse debut in this special production, directed by Nehemiah
Persoff. This famous and popular play is based on the life of the great
American poet, Emily Dickinson, and was originally written for the
famous actress, Julie Harris, who won a Tony award for her performance
in the play.
The show will open Saturday night, July
5, with our traditional champagne gala. There will be a preview on
Thursday, July 3. (There will be no show on Friday, July 4.) It will
run weekends through July 27. All Friday and Saturday shows will begin
at 7:30 PM. Sunday matinees every weekend will begin at 3 PM. Tickets
for this show will be $13.00 for the preview, $25.00 for the champagne
opening, $19 regular/$16 seniors, with special reduced prices of $14.00
for Friday evening shows and $12.00 for students at all shows.
"Emma Duncan is definitely on her way to
Broadway", says Persoff, Cambria's own stage and screen star. "She has
the most wonderful, magical, mesmerizing quality on stage I've seen in a
youngster, since my days at the Actors Studio, where I was captivated by
the great talents and charm of Julie Harris (herself a neophyte then),
Maureen Stapleton, Kim Stanley, Cloris Leachman and Kim Hunter.
According to Jim Buckley, Artistic Director of the PPP, the play was
chosen not only to celebrate the extraordinary artistry of Emma Duncan,
but to experience the reassurance of a beautiful play, full of passion
and poetry and heart.
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