The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes - 2024 West End History , Info & More
Young Vic (Main House)
66 The Cut London
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it.
After a lifetime spent watching her brothers grow rich, Regina Hubbard has had enough of standing around. When a businessman offers the family the prospect of untold wealth and power, a sequence of events unfolds that sets brother against brother, father against son and Regina against the whole pack of them.
A story of greed, ambition and a family on the edge, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes receives a savage new staging by Olivier Award-winning director Lyndsey Turner (The Witches, The Crucible).
__Assisted Performances__
BSL Performance: Tue 7 Jan, 7.30pm.
Captioned Performances: Tue 17 Dec, 7.30pm & Sat 4 Jan,
2.30pm.
Relaxed Performances: Sat 11 Jan, 2.30pm & Thu 16 Jan, 7.30pm.
Sensory Adapted Performance: Thu 9 Jan, 7.30pm.
Audio Described Performances: Thu 19 Dec, 7.30pm & Sat 18 Jan,
2.30pm.
The Little Foxes - 2024 - West End Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes at the Young Vic review: Anne-Marie Duff shines in this tale of a rapaciously dysfunctional family's collapse
7 / 10
There’s a reason Hellman is rarely done. Her plays can look overwrought and dated. The extended Alabama clan featured here make Tennessee Williams’s unhappy families look like the Waltons. But there’s a brutal internal logic to this 1939 work and a timeliness to Turner’s revival. A fine ensemble is anchored by a standout performance from Duff. She mines pathos and empathy from the character of Regina Giddens (nee Hubbard), who could be a monster.
Anne-Marie Duff is fascinatingly nasty in Lyndsey Turner’s uneven Little Foxes
5 / 10
And Regina is such a monster in this production that it’s hard to feel any kind of surprise or sympathy as she manipulates and is manipulated in turn. Like Hellman’s best-known play The Children’s Hour, Little Foxes is a compelling study of female nastiness, and the way that women become hard as polished fingernails under the brutal pressures of the patriarchy and capitalism. It’s undeniably powerful. Still, this production’s uneven performances and dour staging don’t make a particularly seductive case for revisiting it.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 16, 2024
Lyndsey Turner's new production of The Little Foxes is now playing at the Young Vic. Read the reviews for the production and see what the critics are saying!
by Alexander Cohen - December 12, 2024
We love watching a rich family crumble on stage. From Oedipus and his mother to Chekhov’s families fractured by existential angst, to Ibsen’s split by socio-politics paradigm shifts. The Hubbards, the family of former plantation owners in Lilian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, could be the spiritual successor of them all
The Little Foxes History
Other Productions of The Little Foxes
| 1939 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1967 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1981 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1997 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 2010 | Off-Broadway |
New York Theatre Workshop Production Off-Broadway |
| 2017 | Broadway |
Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
| 2024 | West End |
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