"lucifer’s child"

Lucifer’s Child focuses on the later life of the celebrated writer Isak Dinesen, decades after she left Africa. We meet her at home in Denmark as a septuagenarian as she prepares for a trip to New York. Suffering from syphilis acquired from her long-ago womanizing husband Baron Bror von Blixen, she reminisces about her past in Africa..

“So a few years ago, before the 1985 film Out of Africa, I said to [playwright] Bill Luce: ‘We should do Isak Dinesen’,” remembered Harris about the creation of this one woman show. “I’d been reading her since I was 16 in Grosse Point Park – Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales. Then when they published the letters and I read them, that’s when I decided I want to do this strange, wonderful, mysterious, glorious person. But because of the movie, we couldn’t use the material for several years until now. This play is really a different time in her life altogether.” 

“Here is a performer who has been on stage for most of any present-day audience’s lifetime,” wrote theater critic Frank Rich in The New York Times, “and it is pure pleasure for a theater enthusiast to watch the focused energy, twinkling humor and sheer expertise with which she executes her own rarified art.” For her performance in Lucifer’s Child, Julie was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

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