Emily & Sue
A Love Story in 5 Scenes and 4 Seizures
Adapted by Carolyn Gage with Merry Gangemi
Emily Dickinson and Susan Gilbert
A multi-media interpretation of the letters and poems of Emily Dickinson, restoring the wild frustration of her lesbian passion, as well as her volcanic rage about living with a disability that was considered unspeakable.
- Presented by Portland Theater Collaborative’s PortFringe, Portland, ME.
- Fresh Fruit Festival, NYC.
Recently discovered photo of Emily with Kate Scott Turner, another woman with whom she had an intimate friendship.
About the production
"a cool, queer, one-woman play that dramatizes Dickinson’s passion for the girl next door... The Dickinson striding and prowling the stage in Emily & Sue is the Dickinson brought into public consciousness by a line of painstaking biographical and textual scholarship focused on sex and gender that goes all the way back to Rebecca Patterson’s The Riddle of Emily Dickinson, published in 1951. It’s good to see that forceful, fascinating figure brought to life in a taut production that does justice to both the intensity and the complexity of a relationship that endured for close to forty years. If Emily & Sue comes to your neck of the woods, you should see it. It will banish the timid ghost of the gingerbread-bearing Belle of Amherst from your memory banks forever."-- Madwoman With a Laptop Blog, NYC
"a cool, queer, one-woman play that dramatizes Dickinson’s passion for the girl next door... The Dickinson striding and prowling the stage in Emily & Sue is the Dickinson brought into public consciousness by a line of painstaking biographical and textual scholarship focused on sex and gender that goes all the way back to Rebecca Patterson’s The Riddle of Emily Dickinson, published in 1951. It’s good to see that forceful, fascinating figure brought to life in a taut production that does justice to both the intensity and the complexity of a relationship that endured for close to forty years. If Emily & Sue comes to your neck of the woods, you should see it. It will banish the timid ghost of the gingerbread-bearing Belle of Amherst from your memory banks forever."-- Madwoman With a Laptop Blog, NYC
