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Home > Browse > Full Length Plays > Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast

Conceived and developed by Abigail Killeen. Written by Rose Courtney. Adapted from the short story by Isak Dinesen.

Product Code: BK5000

Full-length Play

Comedy | Drama

Cast size: 3w., 6 either gender, extras as desired.

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Synopsis

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.

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Details

Status In stock
Type of Show Full-length Play
Product Code BK5000
Minimum Cast Size 9
Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
Approx. Run Time 90 min
Staging Flexible set.

Customer Reviews

This is an imaginative, whimsical telling of a modern parable. We loved its symbolism and the themes. This script gives a lot of room for a production team's creativity.

Kay Lynn Perry, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Media Reviews

“Deep, funny, dangerous, sensual, and beautiful.” —Portland Stage

“The play is short, sweet, and endearing.” —Theater Pizzazz

“Moving and poignant.” —Reflections in the Light

“It's timely with a twist, in that it highlights the plight of a refugee seeking asylum, who through her munificence creates a lavish feast that becomes an abundant experience of forgiveness and connection that heals a fractured community.” —TheaterMania

“Babette’s Feast is a bundle of exciting contradictions: stark and lush, stunning and austere, mysterious and comic.” —TheaterMania

“Some kind of love affair, existing somewhere in between bodily and spiritual craving.” —Time Square Chronicles

“Timeless and spiritual.” —Time Square Chronicles

“Babette’s Feast shows us the banquet of life we all take for granted.” —Time Square Chronicles

Production Map

Location	City	State	Opens	Closes
Azusa Pacific University	Azusa	CA	11/06/2025	11/15/2025

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