Lillian Hellmann’s savage family drama at the Young Vic suffers from an excess of melodrama
Family dramas sit at the heart of American theatre, beloved by so many of the great playwrights — among them Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill — as the locus for blistering emotional and political workouts. To their number we should also add Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, rarely performed and certainly flawed, but burning up the stage at London’s Young Vic in the hands of director Lyndsey Turner as a savage and prescient indictment of naked self-interest.
Lizzie Clachan’s sleek set, all muted beige and burgundy, feels increasingly like an oppressive prison, where the two Black servants work continuously as their future is thrashed out by their white bosses, and where Anna Madeley’s bright, fluttering Birdie has her wings clipped by her controlling husband every time she tries to open them.
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