The Aspect of the Place (2015)
THE ASPECT OF THE PLACE:
A Halloween Happening at The Evergreens
With stories curated & adapted by Brianna Sloane
Spectre's Costume by Kaylie Kvoriak
A Co-Production of TheatreTruck and The Emily Dickinson Museum
October 28-November 1, 2015
The Emily Dickinson Homestead
Amherst MA
Featuring two storytellers and a spectre, The Aspect of the Place features tales curated and adapted by TheatreTruck CoFounder Brianna Sloane. Classic European works "Eveline's Visitant", by Mary E. Braddon (1862) and "The Open Door", by Margaret Oliphant (1889) are read off the page by the storytellers. Paired with Robert Frost's stirring early poem, "The Home Burial" (1914), the evening comes home to New England.
The Aspect of the Place takes the audience through The Evergreens, the home of Austin Dickinson’s family. The house is furnished with Dickinson family furniture, household accoutrements, and decor selected and displayed by the family during the nineteenth century, a real 'time capsule' of prosperous nineteenth-century life in a small New England town. The piece honors the House, the spooky delights of Victorian ghost stories, and the idea that phantoms lie within.
The Aspect of the Place takes the audience through The Evergreens, the home of Austin Dickinson’s family. The house is furnished with Dickinson family furniture, household accoutrements, and decor selected and displayed by the family during the nineteenth century, a real 'time capsule' of prosperous nineteenth-century life in a small New England town. The piece honors the House, the spooky delights of Victorian ghost stories, and the idea that phantoms lie within.
Photos this page by Michael Medeiros
