The Hunt
2 hours and 10 minutes with one intermission
The Hunt - 2024 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
St. Ann's Warehouse
45 Water St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Game of Thrones) makes a breathtaking U.S. stage debut in the critically lauded Almeida Theatre production The Hunt (starting February 16, 2024), based on Thomas Vinterberg’s 2012 film Jagten. The Hunt catapults audiences into some of today’s thorniest questions surrounding mob justice. In a performance that has been described as “superb” (Sunday Times), “devastating” (Evening Standard), and “extraordinarily powerful and restrained” (The Stage), Menzies portrays an elementary school teacher accused of misconduct by a child in a rural Danish hunting town. Rupert Goold’s thrilling staging unfolds on Es Devlin’s brilliant set, a literal glass house revolving into anarchy. The Hunt is the second adaptation of a Vinterberg work presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse, following its 2012 U.S. premiere of Grzegorz Jarzyna’s blistering, “viscerally charged” (The New York Times) production of Festen, Vinterberg’s final Dogme 95 film.
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'Th e Hunt’ Review: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
7 / 10
Lucas's transition from hunter to hunted is among the shifting perspectives visualized by the ingenious set devised by Es Devlin (currently the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum). The stage is dominated by what looks like an avant-garde Nordic tiny home placed on a rotating turntable, with walls that switch, as if by magic, from transparent to opaque and back. Intimate conversations take place in the house, but Goold can also cram a whole bunch of people in it, like the members of the lodge or the faithful at the midnight Mass. This structure is both public and private; it protects secrets and reveals them; it can offer shelter and harbor violence. It is the production’s single most fascinating element, and it is used devilishly well in conjunction with Neil Austin’s lighting and Adam Cork’s sound design and composition.
THE HUNT Misses Its Target — Review
5 / 10
Es Devlin’s set, while minimalist and beautiful, also never reaches a satisfying use. The glass tiny-house at its center spins, fogs up, reveals and conceals different characters, but to no fulfilling end. By the nth time a character within the house knocks to be let into the scene, you begin to wonder on what logic these overused axes spin.
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The Hunt - 2024 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Adaptation | David Farr |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Play | Rupert Goold |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play | Tobias Menzies |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Es Devlin |
| 2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design of a Play | Adam Cork |
| 2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Tobias Menzies |
| 2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Play | Rupert Goold |
| 2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Play | The Hunt |
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