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MARY CONWAY applauds a worthy revival of the US 1939 classic drama that studies the dehumanising consequences of affluence
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The Little Foxes
Young Vic, London
LILLIAN HELLMAN’s classic The Little Foxes, currently showing at the Young Vic, has the potency of one long, tightly funnelled, exhaled breath. And it reeks of the 20th century when it was written, and of an America still carving out its identity against a backdrop of dreams.
The play almost serves as an allegory, exhibiting the obsessions and fundamental rot at the country’s heart. And it’s a moral tale, charting the terrible consequences of money obsession and the kind of dynasty-building that courts and protects affluence.
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