The Fox
by D.H. Lawrence, Allan Miller

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Highlights

120 mins 1910s/WWI Interior Set Period Costumes

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle

Nominee: 21 Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, including playwrighting and adaptation

Synopsis

The Fox is a drama of three-cornered love set in the austere north of England at the end of WWI.

Two young women have been living on a farm, working it as best they can, and wondering if they can survive another harsh winter.

A young soldier, who claims to have lived on the farm with his grandfather years earlier, arrives.

He kills the fox that has been preying on their livestock and gets their hens laying again, but while putting everything back in order he also begins to come between these two women who have lived and dreamed together for years.

The tug of war between these three builds to a primordial battle of wills, sexuality, dominance and finally violence.

Written to be performed with two intermissions, but can also be performed with one.

Press Reviews

"Miller beautifully transfers Lawrence’s verbal imagery to the stage in an engrossing dramatic script."

— Hollywood Reporter

"…a surprise and distinct pleasure to encounter Allan Miller’s evocation of D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox…an impassioned tale…an imaginative play, with three vibrantly theatrical characters…In his adaptation, Mr. Miller has captured the isolation and the straining for contact, the environmental bleakness and the turbulence that stirs just beneath the surface. There is a dramatic tension on stage that is quite the equal of the Lawrence story."

— The New York Times

"A muscular dramatization…the play has a powerful central conflict…theatrically exciting emotional fireworks. The tragic ending is a satisfying capper to an absorbing play."

— Variety

"A work of art…a major theatrical event…worthy of Pulitzer Prize consideration. This is living, vital, pulsing theatre at its best."

— Free Press

"The Fox is about as perfect a theatre work as you’ll ever see. It caroms and rolls with sexual intensity, an air of foreboding and, at its shocking climax, almost unbearable suspense."

— Century City News

Characters

Character
Nellie March

Nearly thirty. Tall and strong-looking.

Henry Grenfel

Twenty. A Soldier. Lean.

Jill Banford

Nearly thirty. A small achy creature.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573618765
ISBN-10 0573618763

The Fox is a play written by D.H. Lawrence and published by Samuel French .

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Available for Licensing
Amateur & Professional
Fee: Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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