Alison’s House

By Susan Glaspell

 

Presented at BECHS
Friday, 4/24/09 at 8 PM
Saturday Matinee, 4/25/09 at 2 PM
Sunday Matinee, 4/26/09 at 2 PM
Sunday, 4/26/09 at 6 PM

This 1931 Pulitzer Prize winning drama opens after Alison Stanhope, the playwright’s stand-in for Emily Dickinson, has been dead for eighteen years. Recognizing the importance of Alison’s poetry, the family did agree to its publication but maintained steadfast vigilance over her private life. Now, “the bustle in the house” is that of packing up books and belongings. The dismantling of the household stirs up a hornet’s nest of family feelings and secrets. It brings back the estranged daughter, Elsa, and prompts Alison’s sister, the distraught Miss Agatha, to protect a secretly kept packet of poems of a very personal nature. The drama’s central conflict is between the older and younger generation as they struggle to decide how to balance the manuscript’s deposition against the privacy of its famous author.

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