The demands on Famotibe register most acutely in those tormented out-of-body sequences. Just watch May handling a different knife when coming at Daniel. Just watch Llewellyn slicing vegetables as if they’re someone’s neck. On that subject, this is one of those productions where spectators might wonder how the actors are able to perform it eight times a week. Director James Hillier as well as fight director Esme Cooper are kept busy attending to the cast’s practically non-stop emotional peaks. The play effectively hits many verbally and physically expressed moments. Those results are playwright Flanders’ heavy point. No need or call to go into what follows in terms of who is eventually heard, who remains unheard, and what good or bad occurs when those unheard remain unheard. So, there’s the explosive Foxes situation – “foxes” being the way Daniel and Leon view their libidinous selves. Assuming Daniel has named him as the lover, Leon only hears that his exposed down-low life will stain his reputation, maybe even lose him his Foot Locker salesman position. Morgan salary.Įxpecting Leon will take him in, Daniel isn’t heard by Leon, either. In sympathy with her brother as someone valiantly baring his truth, Deena throws herself out of the house and into a new home she can afford on her just-acquired J. Daniel pleads with Patricia for understanding, as does Deena, who’s overheard the confession. She repudiates him, quoting the Bible on the abomination that is a man lying with another man. Another way of phrasing the situation is saying that much is not being heard, until Daniel decides he’ll only attain inner peace if he asks Patricia to hear him out.ĭoes she? She listens, but not so that Daniel is heard. Morgan position, aren’t yet aware Daniel has this secret. The complications mount, although Patricia, a Bible-loving and church-going housewife, and Deena, an ambitious woman applying for a J. She, however, assumes there’s another woman and even confronts Leon about what he knows. The mutual feelings launch a love affair Daniel finds stronger than his with Meera, who immediately senses his changed behavior. Haltingly, he confesses sharing Leon’s affections. Next thing the audience observes is Daniel returning to apologize to Leon. This becomes clear when Daniel is suddenly seen in what lighting and visual designer Will Monks and sound designer Josh Anio Grigg create as a tortured dream in which the troubled fellow, grimacing, extends his arms as if being painfully pulled apart. Yet, something has noticeably been bothering him. Their cuddling has regularly occurred and appeared to be genuine. Until that shocking lips-on-lips coup de theatre, Daniel has been a loving husband to Meera as well as an eager expectant father. Daniel, outraged, flees the sofa and room, which, it should be explained is now supposedly meant to represent Leon’s home. Unexpectedly, however, Leon relaxes his grip and kisses Daniel smack on the mouth. (Esme Cooper is the fight director.) But one day the horseplay turns to serious fisticuffs and near-death wrestling holds. Leon is ostensibly Daniels’s buddy, their bond marked by friendly sparing at which they’re both adept. Not living with them but on the premises so often that Patricia and Deena consider him a boarder is Leon (Gbadamosi). They live somewhere in London with Daniel’s white girlfriend Meera (Nemide May), who’s been disowned by her Iranian family because she’s now carrying Daniel’s child. The volatile Foxes is about many human characteristics, but it’s most immediately about the dire human need to be heard and its counterpart: how not being heard is handled by those demanding to be heard and not accommodated.ĭeena is daughter to Patricia (Suzette Llewellyn) and sister to Daniel (Raphel Famotibe). Photo: Carol Roseggĭeena (Tosin Alabi) says early in Dexter Flanders’ Foxes: “I know what it’s like to feel like you’re not being heard.” Raphel Famotibe, Bayo Gbadamosi in Foxes.
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