Belle Brezing

Belle Brezing, the legendary madam who inspired Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind fame, is one of the most charismatic, colorful and scandalous women ever to come out of the South. When she died in August, 1939, the New York Times ran her obit on the front page ("Died: Famed Ky. bawd") and Time Magazine paid tribute to Miss Brezing, whose house of pleasure on Megowan Street was known as the "most orderly of disorderly houses." Local playwright Margaret C. Price explores the twilight of the Madam’s death, when, haunted by former lover’s spirit, Belle remembers what she had devoted a life-time to forgetting in order to forgive herself – beyond Life.