Lattimer and Warnick are appropriately at a loss when the Coveys’ nemesis arrives in the form of a 19-year-old robot dressed like an exorcist in his long coat and wide-brimmed hat, and clearly impractical in social manners.
He is William Bloor (Zach Thomas), a scarecrow of a young man who, at the age of five, was taken to an institution that trains children to hunt foxes and those who conspire with them to overthrow civilization.
Stefanie Warnick (left) and Rick Lattimer play a fearful couple who were exposed to tragedy in “Foxfinder”, which is now presented as a virtual production by the New Phoenix Theater.
Sharon Cantillon
The Coveys have examined every aspect of their agricultural and intimate lives through the tactless bloor, an overreach exercise made even more absurd by their supposed motivation. In Bloors World, the fox is the archenemy of the English food supply. (Sam’s observation that rabbits make his crops far more damaging than a fox he’s never seen is wiped out.)
In a triumph of jealousy over reality, Bloor takes his victims into a fantasy world where foxes taller than six feet steal babies and tear them apart with five-inch teeth. Lose a cat? It was a fox. Let a child drown? Rain wash out your wheat? The foxes did it. And this guilt that you bear that you can’t shake? It’s all the foxes’ fault.
Rachael Buchanan plays Judith’s friend Sarah, a voice of reason who learns that fighting the obsession of a true believer comes with a price. Your choices underscore the inevitability of the result as the dynamics of the piece shift downwards.
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