Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Hunting Grounds

Everyone knows that a fox in the henhouse is bad news. But when a young soldier offers to rid two struggling female farmers of their sly intruder in the Middlebury Actors Workshop’s The Fox, they don’t realize letting him into their lives is equally foreboding. Allan Miller’s play, based on the 1923 novella by D.H. Lawrence, quickly turns into something of a psychological thriller, says MAW artistic director Melissa Lourie. Tapping into gender roles, sexuality and the emotional toll of war, the story progresses to an unlikely love-hate triangle. By performing on the floor rather than the stage, the trio of actors make the sudden climax all the more striking and intimate. It’ll get your heart racing, for sure.