“Precise, intelligent and passionate . . . In the final moments of this wonderful 90 minutes, she does achieve a kind of transcendence and both performer and audience come as close to the soul of the poet as we probably ever will”
Edmonton Sun, Canada
EMILY DICKINSON & I is a one-woman play about writing, acting and getting into Emily Dickinson’s dress. Movingly told and intensely personal, this is a play about the relationship between a dead poet and her living admirer, who also happens to be an actress, separated by a continent and a century. It tells the story of the attempt, over decades, to produce the work that will represent the object of that admiration in that object’s own terms, capture her essence, define her. But how can she be made to breathe without putting words in her mouth? On the other hand, how can she be made three-dimensional on the stage if only her extant written words are used? These dilemmas, as well as questions of memory, identification and the creative imagination are intriguingly played out in this well-wrought and original piece of work.
Edie Campbell, daughter of a Dutch mother and Canadian father, was born in Eindhoven, grew up in London and trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Thereafter she worked for nine years as an actress in the USA. Presently she lives in Great Britain with her American husband, Jack Lynch, co-author and producer of Emily Dickinson and I, by LynchPin Productions Theatre Company Ltd.
