St. Ann’s Warehouse offers US premiere of ‘The Hunt’ featuring Tobias Menzies
Menzies makes U.S. stage debut in timely, critically acclaimed play
February 22, 2024 Special for Brooklyn Eagle
Actor Tobias Menzies attends the STARZ mid-season premiere of "Outlander" at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in New York. Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
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DUMBO — St. Ann’s Warehouse presents the U.S. premiere of the Almeida Theatre production of “The Hunt,” a blistering thriller catapulting audiences into some of today’s thorniest questions surrounding mob justice and forgiveness. Adapted by David Farr and directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold, “The Hunt” features Tobias Menzies, whose performances have gripped UK stage audiences for decades, making an arresting U.S. theater debut. For American audiences familiar with Menzies’ versatile film and TV career — in beloved series including “The Crown,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Outlander” — “The Hunt” is an introduction to an exceptional onstage talent operating at full force.
A modern-day parable, “The Hunt”is based on Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm’s 2012 Academy Award-nominated film “Jagten,” featuring actor Mads Mikkelsen. It is the second adaptation of a Vinterberg work presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse, following its 2012 U.S. premiere of Grzegorz Jarzyna’s “viscerally charged” (The New York Times) production of “Festen”,Vinterberg’s final Dogme 95 film.
Like the film, Goold’s “superb” (Sunday Times), “devastating” (Evening Standard) production is set in a rural hunting community that goes mad when a teacher is accused of misconduct by a six-year-old child. Where guns and drinking songs are the way of life, truth is no match for the impulses unleashed. Goold’s thrilling staging unfolds on Es Devlin’s brilliant set, a literal glass house revolving into anarchy.