The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman's iconic play draws us into a "predatory time" and into a family that, with unsuspected greed but also an entrepreneurial spirit, rushes toward prosperity, profit, and new life horizons. What do the Hubbards yearn for? What do they strive for with wild determination, ready to cross moral reservations, family sentiments, and social rules – do they want to escape the narrowness and limitations of their existence or to make a lot of money? The conflict-ridden family in the American South is swept away by the storm of the most important questions we persistently ask ourselves today: Are happiness and wealth identical? What is the meaning of love in a world shaken by mercantilism? Is the choice to become predators or victims dictated from without or within? Do time or people impose values?