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The Little Foxes
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SHOW INFORMATION

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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 21, 2010
Closed Oct 31, 2010
Running Time:
1hr. 45min.

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http://www.nytw.org/the_little_foxes_info.asp

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Acclaimed director Ivo van Hove returns to NYTW to take on one of Lillian Hellman's most well-known plays, The Little Foxes. Van Hove's fresh vision of this iconic play will be a study of how women of different races and classes contend with male aggression, power, and domination. Elizabeth Marvel, who has memorably collaborated with van Hove at NYTW, playing the title role of Hedda Gabler and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, will take on the role of Regina Giddens, the strong and determined woman at the center of Hellman's web of deceit.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



New York Theatre Workshop
79 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

No Victorian furniture or Spanish moss is in evidence in Ivo van Hove's contemporary, ultra-stark, and decidedly brutal staging of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, playing at New York Theatre Workshop. But the show's lack of physical trappings -- the action of this potboiler unfolds within a cube of deep purple velvet where a video screen held within an ornate gold frame, a small electronic organ and four ultra-modern chandeliers are the only adornments -- actually serves to put a host of powerful and fiercely committed performances in stark relief. Indeed, the viciousness of the production extends well beyond Hellman's cutting script.

The show revolves around the backstabbing, violent[...]


Reviewed by Andy Propst on Sep 22, 2010

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