The Little Foxes
Ages: 12+
Opened: December 5, 2024Closing: February 08, 2025
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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it.
After a lifetime spent watching her brothers grow rich, Regina Hubbard has had enough of standing around. When a businessman offers the family the prospect of untold wealth and power, a sequence of events unfolds that sets brother against brother, father against son and Regina against the whole pack of them.
A story of greed, ambition and a family on the edge, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes receives a savage new staging by Olivier Award-winning director Lyndsey Turner (The Witches, The Crucible).
__Assisted Performances__
BSL Performance: Tue 7 Jan, 7.30pm.
Captioned Performances: Tue 17 Dec, 7.30pm & Sat 4 Jan,
2.30pm.
Relaxed Performances: Sat 11 Jan, 2.30pm & Thu 16 Jan, 7.30pm.
Sensory Adapted Performance: Thu 9 Jan, 7.30pm.
Audio Described Performances: Thu 19 Dec, 7.30pm & Sat 18 Jan,
2.30pm.
The Little Foxes - West End Cast
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The Little Foxes, Young Vic review - timeshifted production blurs the play's focus
5 / 10
The one theme that does still resonate is the one Alexandra adopts as she plots her escape to a future with music and European culture in it: not to be the kind of person who stands around and watches as injustices are inflicted. But Turner’s production doesn’t really present us with a play focusing on American racism or the iniquities of the South. These issues are in the text but not at this staging’s core. Ditto feminism. What we are left with is a patchwork: a plot about family finances and double-crosses yoked to a melodrama – emphasised by the ominous rumbling sounds that accompany the climax. As a tragedy of failed dreams, though, it doesn't engage.
The Little Foxes review – revival of southern American classic leaves questions unanswered
4 / 10
But it is too slow and static, turning Hellman’s masterpiece into a workman-like production. You do not feel a change of emotional temperature, only the turning cogs of the plot. The scheming around financial percentages and investments is like a business meeting that goes on for too long, and the human drama beneath – the jostling for power and advantage-seeking between siblings – does not quite find its footing.
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Review Roundup: THE LITTLE FOXES at the Young Vic
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 16, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 16, 2024
Lyndsey Turner's new production of The Little Foxes is now playing at the Young Vic. Read the reviews for the production and see what the critics are saying!
Review: THE LITTLE FOXES, Young Vic
by Alexander Cohen - December 12, 2024
by Alexander Cohen - December 12, 2024
We love watching a rich family crumble on stage. From Oedipus and his mother to Chekhov’s families fractured by existential angst, to Ibsen’s split by socio-politics paradigm shifts. The Hubbards, the family of former plantation owners in Lilian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, could be the spiritual successor of them all
The Little Foxes History
Other Productions of The Little Foxes
| 1939 | Broadway |
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| 1967 | Broadway |
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| 1981 | Broadway |
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| 1997 | Broadway |
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| 2010 | Off-Broadway |
New York Theatre Workshop Production Off-Broadway |
| 2017 | Broadway |
Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
| 2024 | West End |
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