The name might sound like a twee landfill indie band but Lillian Hellman’s rarely staged 1939 play The Little Foxes is, in actuality, a snarling crepuscular thing. Director Lyndsey Turner strips away any possible hint of cosiness from this story of a self-destructing family of southern landowners – with a result that’s intriguing but hard to love.
The story unfolds in the ugly wreckage of the post-slavery South, where greedy brothers Benjamin (Mark Bonnar) and Oscar (Steffan Rhodri) are desperately trying to gather funds to build a cotton factory on their land – and to bring them the millions they feel are their birthright. They need their sister Regina (Anne-Marie Duff) to get on board, but her sick husband is stalling, and tempers are boiling over.
