7/7/2023 0 Comments Babette's feast short storyJuliana Francis Kelly, Abigail Killeen, Jo Mei, Sorab Wadia, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Sturgis Warner and Steven Skybell in “Babette’s Feast.”īabette immerses herself in her refuge but, as we find, doesn’t cease to be French. She learns to keep house simply and cook possibly flavorlessly, out of gratitude to their generosity in sheltering her. Years later, the singer, in an attempt to save his friend Babette (Michelle Hurst), a revolutionary in France’s 1848 rebellion, sends her to Berlevaag. Both men, unable to pierce the women’s fervent dedication to abstemiousness and piety, leave town dejected but forever changed. Sisters Martine (Killeen) and Philippa (Juliana Francis Kelly) carry on their father’s good works and worship, undeterred by the attentions of a dashing Swedish officer (Jeorge Bennett Watson) or a passionate French opera singer (Steven Skybell). For all its liberties and blurred lines – female actors take on male characters and vice versa, and casting is without regard to race or ethnicity – the play hews sharply to her text, as opposed to the perhaps better known 1987 Danish film adaptation. These external forces provide the yin and yang of this tale of two beguiling but ascetic daughters of a Protestant minister (Sturgis Warner) in the small Norwegian town of Berlevaag, which “looks like a child’s toy town,” as Dinesen wrote.
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