Hunt

2022, York Theatre Royal

Guns, bad language and blogging teenagers are some of the themes that fill this middle-aged woman with dread, being as far away from real life as Dorothy and her sparkling slippers. However, Hunt by Fionnuala Kennedy shows how prevalent these things can be in the lives of teenagers and how the mundane and everyday can implode in the most serious of ways.

The story sees a group of friends as they play a game in their local neighbourhood of Hunt – which involves borrowing objects from the gardens of neighbours without being caught. A largely harmless activity, but cracks begin to show in the relationships with the return of ‘Mad Danielle’, the under-current of the ‘Man in the Van’ and the story of the kitten. Tensions are fuelled and the connections and friendships begin to fall apart endangering a missing younger sibling of one of the group.

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