Category: #EmilyDickinson

  • Haunted by Emily…a play

    The Last Scene Scene 10 (The 1930’s. HOMESTEAD to the left, EVERGREENS still to the right but the DELL in between has vanished. Both houses look the worse for wear; HOMESTEAD sports a “For Sale” sign. Arms crossed, two young women in thirties clothing study one another. They are the actresses who played SUE and…

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  • Haunted by Emily…a play

    scene 9 (Curtain rises on a Massachusetts courtroom in the 1890’s. Judge seated at center; witness box directly beneath his high lectern, bleachers to left and right. Buzzing noises of excited crowd) JUDGE(Banging gavel) We will have order in this court! Mr. Hammond, call your witness! EMILY(Pretends to bang the gavel too) The Unknown is…

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  • Haunted by Emily…a play

    Scene 8 (A path in town a few weeks later. On the stage apron, before the closed curtain- VINNIE, rushing past with a basket, is stopped by a heavily veiled SUE. EMILY chases ineffectually after.) SUE(Shakes a newspaper at her) What is this about giving Mrs. Todd our property? The patrimony of the children’s generation?…

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    Scene 7 (MABEL and VINNIE, both black-clothed, taking tea in the Homestead parlor. EMILY cavorts, playing hopscotch games they cannot see.) EMILYIf recollecting were forgettingThen I remember not.If forgetting, recollectingHow near I had forgot.Heart! We will forget him! You and I, tonight!You may forget the warmth he gaveI will forget the light. (Mimes rolling dice)…

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    Scene 6 (A day later. Coffin laid out in the Evergreen library, mourners filing past. MABEL, dressed in black, peeking in the window, dodging out of sight when she thinks she might be seen. Cries bitterly. EMILY rears up out of the audience) EMILY The things that never can come back are these (Counts them…

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  • Haunted by Emily…a play

    Scene 5 A few years later… (A brilliantly sunny day a few years later. A new house has been added between the two previous houses – back of the stage. We see only its porch where MABEL sits at an old-fashioned typewriter, wearing a green eyeshade, attended by DAVID. A couple sits in each of…

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  • Haunted by Emily…

    A Play Scene 4 – a few weeks later (AUSTIN in the Homestead parlor, nervously pacing, fire poking, wearing a mourning band. MABEL hurries in, attired in spring-like colors. Neither pays attention to EMILY, seated atop the bookcase) AUSTINYou are a dazzling beacon of purity, my darling; so sick am I of mourning black! MABEL…

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