Theater Review: TobiasMenzies stars in director RupertGoold and playwright David Farr's adaptation for AlmeidaTheatre of the ThomasVinterberg film about a Danish small-town schoolteacher falsely accused of sexual misconduct, 'The Hunt'
'Game of Thrones' veteran Tobias Menzies plays a small-town schoolteacher accused of sexual misconduct in Rupert Goold's stage version of the Thomas Vinterberg film.
Back in 2004, the Almeida first brought Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg's dark 1998 tragicomedyto the London stage, a hit adaptation that traveled to the West End, Broadway and beyond.
The film won best actor at Cannes for Mads Mikkelsen as Lucas, the well-loved teacher at the center of the moral panic. On stage, Lucas is played by Tobias Menzies , who lacks Mikkelsen's vulpine beauty and louche charisma, even if his poker-faced air of quiet desperation is probably better suited to the role of an emotionally repressed divorcee whose secretive nature counts against him when enraged neighbors learn of the sexual allegations.
This new English-language adaptation by David Farr lacks some of the nuanced shadings of Vinterberg's screenplay, veering into shouty melodrama in places. Even so, Goold's superbly mounted production has punch, polish and contemporary resonance. It feels like a hit.feels more relevant than ever in the current climate, raising uncomfortable questions about the perils of allowing righteous mob rule to stampede legal due process.
In a bold addition, Goold and Farr pepper the drama with lightly choreographed musical numbers, including a recurring hunting-lodge drinking song whose boisterous machismo curdles into menace as Lucas switches roles from hunter to prey. Adam Cork's percussive score also adds dramatic heft, particularly during a torchlight parade sequence, which highlights the parallels between small-town security and vigilante fascism.
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