“I never approach an adaptation from one medium without first being sure I can find a new form on the stage for the story,” says Rupert Goold. For “The Hunt,” his idea was to compress “the story into a series of gladiatorial scenes that offer scope to wonderful actors to mine the extraordinary depths that stage acting, with its full physicality, uniquely offers.” He adds, “The possibility of [staging it] at St. Ann’s, with its contemporary design, intimate playing space, and wide-reaching audience is one we would absolutely leap at. It is an important work about a universal theme, and in an election year I think the dangers it warns of will be incredibly potent for a New York audience.”
Goold and Menzies reteam for this work, continuing a quarter-century working relationship that has seen them collaborate on plays by Stoppard and Shakespeare. Goold says Menzies is “possibly the finest stage actor [he has] ever worked with,” noting his “ability to find hinterland and interiority alongside dazzling flights of fancy.”
Presenting this provocative work in a season of formally diverse productions — of dance-theater, puppetry, documentary theater, sci-fi, and a deconstructed Western — St. Ann’s doubles down on its vital role as the New York home for today’s boldest international theater-makers.
About David Farr
David Farr is a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, novelist and Film/TV director whose plays have been performed all over the world. He has increasingly moved into film and television, working on the long-running BBC show “Spooks” and completing his first feature film, “Hanna,” for Focus Features in 2009. His directorial debut, “The Ones Below” with Cuba Pictures, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and was released in UK cinemas in March 2016.
Farr’s adaptation of John le Carré’s novel “The Night Manager”, produced by The Ink Factory, starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston…
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