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`Belle': Emily's Lit Writ Small

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970906
Author:Lloyd Rose

Tana Hicken is marvelous in a less-than-marvelous play, "The Belle of Amherst," which opened Thursday for a special two-week engagement at the Round House Theatre.

The one-woman play about Emily Dickinson is the work of William Luce, currently represented on Broadway by "Barrymore," and it's thin, unsatisfying stuff. Still, any chance to watch Hicken in action is reason to go to the theater.

Emily Dickinson was a great poet and a great recluse. She shut herself up in the family home in Amherst, Mass., and communicated with the outside world mainly by letter. Her sister lived with her, ...

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