Foxfinder | April 2022
Monday 4th to Friday 8th April at 8pm. Saturday 9th April matinee at 2.30pm
Foxfinder by Dawn King. Directed by Lorraine Spenceley
A spell-binding and thought-provoking drama, Dawn King’s Foxfinder won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize and premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London. It had its West End premiere at the Ambassadors Theatre in 2018.
Set in a dystopian future, England is in crisis. Fields are flooded, food is scarce and fear grips the land. William Bloor, a foxfinder, arrives at Judith and Samuel Covey’s farm to investigate a suspected fox infestation. The Coveys’ harvest has failed to meet its target and the government wants to know why.
Trained from childhood, the foxfinder is fixated on his mission to unearth the beasts that must be to blame for the Coveys’ woes. But as the hunt progresses, William uncovers some unsettling questions with answers he doesn’t want to hear…
“Foxfinder is a gripping, unsettling and darkly comic exploration of belief, desire and responsibility” (Finborough Theatre, London, 2011).
Cast
| William Bloor | Jon Louder |
| Samuel Covey | Simon Church |
| Judith Covey | Alice Foster |
| Sarah Box | Christabel Wickert |
Backstage
| Director | Lorraine Spenceley |
| Stage Manager | Janet Clark |
| Backstage Crew | Lorraine Spenceley |
| Rehearsal Prompt | Jan Stockwell |
| Props | Ian Evans, Lorraine Spenceley, the cast |
| Set Design | Ian Wathen, Lorraine Spenceley, Ian James, Adrian Pope |
| Set Construction Lead | Ian Saunders |
| Sound Design | Ian James |
| Lighting Design | Jon Lewis |
| Operator | James Quinn |
| Technical Support | Andrew Herbert |
| Costumes | Margaret Uzzell, Diana Quinn |
| Poster Design | Peter Al-Sheikhli and Rob Chambers |
Production photos (click to enlarge)
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