Mad Cow Theatre is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team of Lillian Hellman's biting American classic The Little Foxes, which will take the Harriett stage Aug. 3-26, 2018 as the ninth production of Mad Cow Theatre's Season 21.
The Little Foxes is a milestone in American drama, the corrosive story of a well-heeled southern family at the turn of the 20th century who are each trying to outwit each other to capture all the family spoils. Playwright Hellman reputedly based the story on her Alabama parents' own family drama, and Tallullah Bankhead, herself an Alabamian, first played the starring role in the 1939 Broadway premiere.
In The Little Foxes, the greedy Regina Hubbard Giddens and her two scheming brothers, Oscar and Ben, hope to get rich from their cotton mill, but first they must tap into the fortune of Regina's invalid husband, Horace. The trio's plan is to marry Regina's daughter Alexandra to Oscar's son Leo. But when that scheme fails, theft and blackmail take its place.
"Today's business landscape is still a challenging battlefield for women, especially when it's family," says Mitzi Maxwell, Mad Cow Theatre's executive director. "How can a woman be a mother, wife and mentor when survival is wrapped around sexual traditions?"
At Mad Cow, Ame Livingston* (Painting Churches, You Can't Take It With You, August: Osage County) will play the central role of Regina Hubbard Giddens.
Mark Edward Smith (Tribes, The Light in The Piazza, Death of a Salesman) and Bob Brandenburg, in his Mad Cow acting debut, will play her greedy brothers Oscar and Ben.
Steven Lane* (The Big Meal, Photograph 51, Hedda Gabler) will play Regina's browbeaten husband Horace, Tommy Keesling (A View From The Bridge, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Art) appears as Mr. Marshall and
Courtney Bahr, a newcomer to Mad Cow, will play Oscar's alcoholic wife Birdie. Zachary Lane (Skylight),
Roberta Emerson (1776), Leroy Flemming and Anneliese Moon, both new to Mad Cow, will make up the rest of the cast.
Director
Tony Simotes** (A View From the Bridge, Born Yesterday, Fences,) returns to Mad Cow and is joined by scenic designer
Robert F. Wolin*** (Born Yesterday, Fences, Three Sisters), lighting designer Eric Craft (Born Yesterday, Animal Crackers, Big River), sound designer Alex Mason (A View from the Bridge, Silent Sky, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife) and costume designer Mollie LaTorre (Fun Home).
*Member of
Actors' Equity Association
** Member of SDC
***Member of IATSE
Previous work with Mad Cow in parentheses.
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