February 6 - 8, 2025

Babette’s Feast

Conceived and developed by Abigail Killeen

Written by Rose Courtney

Adapted from the short story by Isak Dinesen

Presented in The Playhouse in the Luck Leadership Center at St. Christopher’s School.

This adaptation reimagines Dinesen’s classic tale as a rich theatrical event: deep, funny, sensual, dangerous and beautiful. It brings us into the cloistered 19th-century world of two loving, devout Lutheran sisters and tells us how they and their fractured community reluctantly, then completely, embrace Babette, a mysterious French refugee. But when Babette, much to the community’s shock, sacrifices all she has to throw a lavish dinner party, the dinner guests magically and inexplicably experience radical, infinite grace. Babette’s sumptuous feast is more than a meal: it is an act of supreme artistry that invites an abundant experience of forgiveness and transforms the entire community. Through Babette’s Feast, we learn how embracing the stranger can change a community for the better.

BABETTE’S FEAST is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.