Little Foxes
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Synopsis
Set in America's Deep South in 1900, the Hubbard family is poised to invest its collective wealth in an irresistibly lucrative deal. But sibling rivalry soon unleashes a disastrous wave of double-dealing within the household...
Our Review:
12 October 2001
When I heard that the Donmar Warehouse were reviving Lillian Hellman's 1939 stodgy drama The Little Foxes (best known for its 1941 film incarnation with Bette Davis), my heart sank.
Its last London incarnation - at the Victoria Palace in the early 1980s - was a famous fiasco. It starred Elizabeth Taylor, about which the Daily Mail's then drama critic Jack Tinker reported, "Her first appearance in a cottage loaf wig and matching figure (had she by some mischance put on her bustle back to front?) was less than prepossessing". A subsequent mid-1990s Broadway revival that I saw of the play, with Stockard Channing, was little more energising, and I remember fleeing the theatre at the interval.
But when the Donmar announced Penelope Wilton as its star, I was suddenly more excited. Wilton, who previously graced this very stage with one of the most extraordinary performances I've ever seen by any actress, period, (in Pinter's A Kind of Alas...
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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 12 October 2001:
I was at the opening preview of this play which I'd always heard about but never actually saw. Knowing hardly anything about the plot I went purely because it was a Lillian Helman piece and I was craving some drama in an intimate theater like the Donmar Warehouse (you feel as though you are practically in these people's living room). Well, may I say Penelope Wilton's performance was quite simply a gift from her to anyone fortunate enough to be there to experience it. As I sat in awe, holding my breath, thinking "she's gotta lose a beat sooner or later", she just carried on inhabiting this creature of one playwrite's imagination as if she had been there in the author's unconscious at its conception. The play is riveting only - I dare say - thanks to her. The rest of the cast range from very good to passable, but this is basically a one woman enterprise which will not soon be forgotten. ...
Cast
Penelope Wilton
Brid Brennan
David Calder
Matthew Marsh
Peter Guinness
Anna Maxwell Martin
Christian Dixon
Edward Hughes
Alibe Parsons
Michael Hadley
Creative
Lillian Hellman (Author)
Donmar Warehouse (Producer)
Marianne Elliott (Director)
Lez Brotherston (Design)
Paul Constable (Lighting)
Colin Towns (Music)
John A Leonard (Sound)
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