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Of course you know, this means war. Well, it did back in the mid-1700’s when France and Britain were fighting over North America, which is also why the Fortress of Louisbourg was built.

The Feast And The Fury, a new dinner theatre production scheduled for presentation this summer at the Louisbourg Playhouse and at the national historic site itself plunges its audience into daily life at the Fortress during a time of conflict.

“Canso has been captured and French privateers are out hinting British vessels,” Bev Brett, the writer and director of the show, says about its premise, “The audience becomes a group of prisoners who have been taken to the Fortress to be fed and entertained, in this case, to a traditional 25 course Ambigu meal.”

The Feast And The Fury grew out of a series of “mini-plays” Brett was commissioned to write three years ago.

With the sponsorship of the Fortress of Louisbourg Association, Brett re-wrote her earlier work into its present format.

“The Fortress was really helpful in making this play happen,” Brett notes, “They found us a big open warehouse where people can see the play more comfortably.”

Brett says the show is based on actual historical figures from all levels of Louisbourg society and uses a variety of theatre styles from “comedy to high drama to farce and melodrama.

Even a piece that started off as a puppet show, about two characters trying to find who is the most important person in Louisbourg, that we now do with real people.”

“We hope the audience will be drawn into the history through their emotions as they care about these people and what happens to them,” Brett explains.

“We have a cast of six actors, some of the finest on the island, who play 20 characters, and it’s a fast paced show so they’re jumping in and out of different costumes all the time,” Brett says.

The cast includes Joanne Donovan, George MacKenzie, Jeanne Matthews, Nick Sobol, James F. W. Thompson, and Lindsay Thompson.

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Born Nov. 22, 1936, in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind., he was the son of Harold and Bertha Stowe Thompson.

Mr. Thompson worked as an independent manufacturer sales representative.

He attended Warsaw High School and was a member of the football, baseball and basketball teams. He graduated from Warsaw High School in 1955. He served in the Army as a paratrooper from 1956 until 1959. More than half his service time was spent overseas. He was a member of Anchor of Hope Fellowship Church in Keokuk. He enjoyed golf and the Green Bay Packers.

Survivors include one daughter, Jennifer Savard of Chesterfield, Mo.; two sons, Mason “Rhett” Thompson of Elsberry, Mo., and Mathew Thompson of Fenton, Mo.; three grandchildren; one sister, Sue Koehler of Sutter; and longtime companion, Virginia Gorby of Warsaw; nieces; and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister.

Visitation with family and friends will be from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at Anchor of Hope Church in Keokuk. There will be a time of fellowship following the service at the church.

The funeral for Mr. Thompson will be at noon Saturday at Anchor of Hope Church in Keokuk, with the Rev. John Varner officiating. Graveside services with military rites will be at 4 p.m. Saturday in Oakland Cemetery in Warsaw.

A memorial has been established.

Printy Funeral Home of Carthage is in charge of arrangements.

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