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Through a Glass, Familiarly: The Hunt
In this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
But there’s something about him that cuts against the grain of Lucas, whose somewhat lonely but basically okay life is put on the fast-track to hell when one of his students, a quiet little girl named Clara (the serious, elfin Aerina DeBoer when I saw the show), accuses him of touching her. Hilde (Lolita Chakrabarti) and Per (Howard Ward)—the headmistress of the preschool and the board member who functions as its “child safety officer”—begin the trend of relentlessly leading the witness in their questioning of Clara. Goold intersperses the show with theoretically menacing sequences of the menfolk singing and pumping their fists and pounding their chests — and eventually morphing into primal, nightmarish visions, their faces hidden by huge deer skulls and antlers.
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