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.
A steely-eyed Anne-Marie Duff drips venom as Regina. Steffan Rhodri is persuasive as the charmless Oscar, whose main pastime, apart from dreaming of riches, is bullying his highly strung wife, Birdie, a member of a grand plantation family. Anna Madeley’s character, a sort of proto-Blanche DuBois is, in fact, the most interesting of all of them; it’s just a pity we don’t see more of her. In the end, however, she, like the rest of the cast, is ground down by the gears of the clockwork plot.
Everyone is miserable in this house, where children become pawns in their parents’ gross games to keep wealth in the family, and women are told a frown never got them anywhere. Duff’s Regina and Worthington-Cox’s Alexandra share a painful final scene, yet there’s no real sense of redemption, which makes this a hard watch. Their performances, though, are tip-top.
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1967 | Broadway |
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1981 | Broadway |
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2010 | Off-Broadway |
New York Theatre Workshop Production Off-Broadway |
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Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
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