Columbia Stages Presents Palina Jonsdottir's Production of BABETTE'S FEAST
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 28, 2017
Babette's Feast, an award-winning and culturally iconic story, takes place in a world of division and demonization of the unknown "other"; Babette the great artist and culinary female genius of Paris, seeks political asylum in a remote and religious community in the north of Norway. Having lost everything in the Communard Revolution - the Rights of Man, her family, her freedom - she humbly serves her austere and pious masters who saved her from total perdition. On the 100th anniversary of the town Prophet, Babette cooks an extraordinary French feast culminating in a transformative effect on the spirits of the puritanical members of the community, opening their hearts to sensual joy and their minds to the unseen beauty of the world.
The cast of Babette's Feast includes Albert Bendix, Joan Juliet Buck, Matthew Cohn*, Oliva Comett, Sanam Erfani, Cody Eugene, Hannah Marie Fonder*, Amanda Lee Hawkins, Gregory Hermann, Macy Idzakovich, Douglas Jabara*, Carla Kissane, Jack Mainsbridge, Joe Muzikar*, Daniel Quintana, Ariane Malia Reinhart* and Steve Shoup*.
The Babette's Feast creative team is comprised of international theatre artists Hugi Guðmundsson (Composer), Ida Biering (Dramaturg), John Salutz (Sound Designer), Garrett Hood (Assistant Sound Designer), Chatori Shimizu (Musical Consultant), Margaux Maeght (Scenic Designer), Cha See (Lighting Designer), Kat Jeffrey and Lillian Prentice (Costume Designers), Flippía Elísdóttir (Costume Supervisor), Elliot Storey (Video/Projections Designer), Garrett Hood (Assistant Sound Designer).
Producer Yue Liu, Co-Producer/Company Manager Hallfridur Tryggvadottir, Production Stage Manager Rachel Zucker*, Assistant Stage Managers Patricia Garvey and Alison R. Simone.
*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
Babette's Feast will run for a strictly limited engagement at The Connelly Theater at 220 East 4th Street. Performances are March 8?11 at 8 pm, with a 3 pm matinee Saturday, March 11. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $5 Seniors or free with any student ID.
Tickets: $15/ $5 Seniors/ FREE with Student ID (enter code: "STUDENT"). Ticketing Info at columbiastages.org/tickets.html. Facebook Page Babette's Feast: www.facebook.com/events/395218767493967.
About Pálína Jónsdóttir, Director:
Pálína Jónsdóttir is a theatre and opera director, born in Iceland. She is an author and director of original stage productions, and she directs contemporary and classic theatre works. Her alchemic compositions of physical and audio visual theatrical work draws from her expansive background in dance, drama and music. Among Pálína's theatre productions is Völva, commissioned by the National Theatre in Iceland, earning her the Icelandic Gríma, Performing Arts Award. She collaborated on Still Life with Commentator commissioned for BAM and her production The Secret Face was performed at the HERE Arts Center in NYC. Pálína was commissioned by the HVCCA to write and perform The SeaMare - a Tableaux Vivant for Origins. For Columbia Stages she directed A Dream Play by A.Strindberg, The Three Sisters by A. Chekhov and The Seven Deadly Sins by B. Brecht. Pálína is also an accomplished performer and has performed numerous roles in her career both on stage and in films. For more, go to www.palinajonsdottir.com.
About Columbia Stages and Columbia University School of the Arts:
Columbia Stages is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts. Columbia Stages presents annually a season of graduate actor and director productions as well as a festival of new plays by emerging playwrights. The Theatre Program at the School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in: Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Stage Management, and Theatre Management & Producing. For more information about the Theatre Program visit arts.columbia.edu/theatre.
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