Foxfinder

by Dawn King

Foxfinder is a gripping, unsettling and darkly comic exploration of belief, desire and responsibility. William Bloor, a Foxfinder, arrives at Sam and Judith Covey’s farm to investigate a suspected contamination. What follows will change the course of all their lives, forever.

Genres: Plays, Drama

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2012

Reviews

[Parisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

جالب بود🤌🏻چیزیکه خیلی باهاش مواجه میشیم،اینکه به سری عقاید و چیزا رو از بچگی انقدر غلط به یه عده ای گفتن که کاملا تا مغز استخونشون کورکورانه بهش اعتقاد دارن و همه چیزو به اون ربط میدن،جایی که سازا میپرسه تا حالا روباه دیدین؟فکر نمیکنید که مشکلات ربطی به روباه ندازه و باید جور دیگه ای مدیریت بشه!ا
اون بخشی که ویلیام داره از روی کتاب مرجع راجع به روباه میخونه و همه چیزو به روباه ربط دادن ،اینکه انسان ها دنبال هرچیزین که بتونن مساله اختیار خودشون رو زیر سوال ببرن و بگن که اگه کاری کردن تقصیر یه نفر دیگه یا یه نیروی دیگه بوده،
جدا از اینکه من عاشق نمایش نامه ام ،دوستش داشتم🤌🏻

[Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best play ever !

Everything in this was done so so well. Amazing

[Antonis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Καθηλωτικό και επίκαιρο κείμενο με ένα εξαιρετικό εύρημα.

[Haleh · Rating 4 out of 5]

یک نمایشنامه به شدت جذاب📚😻 اول باید بگم که فضای داستان، فضایی مثل کتاب ۱۹۸۴ رو القا میکنه، اینکه مدام تمام کارها و حرفها زیر ذره بینه و این خودش باعث ایجاد یک فضای اضطراب اور رو در داستان شده. اگر چه نمایشنامه ای کوتاهه ولی به شدت حرفهای مهمی داره و خوندنش رو به همه پیشنهاد میدم. خیلی دلم میخواد در موردش بنویسم ولی هر چی بگم اسپویل میشه فقط اینکه گاهی تعصبات و پیروی کورکورانه از یک سری عقاید و انسانها باعث میشه حقیقتی که جلوی چشم هست دیده نشه. همیشه مهمترین چیز شک کردن و دنبال حقایق رفتن و تفکر کردنه. بخونید و لذت ببرید. راستی نمایشنامه های نشر نی طراحی جلدهای خیلی جذابی دارن من که خیلی دوسشون دارم این کتاب هم که عالی بود😻📚

[Doug · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this play (more than Ciphers, the other King play I've read), and would love to see it performed... would also make an intriguing film. I love when a playwright creates a slightly alternative world, and really fleshes it out, as King does here. Kind of reminded me in an odd way of 'The Handmaid's Tale', but without the feminist trappings.

[Patrick Neylan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating psychological drama combining 1984 and The Crucible, as a zealous investigator calls at a farm to look for evidence of 'infestation', in a world where the fox has been hunted to near-extinction and is now the mythical enemy and scapegoat for all society's ills.

[Salli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great writing, wonderful clear characters, sparse but fully detailed, though it doesn't need the stage to succeed. My query would be over what it is telling or asking us, so many echoes of other dystopias (1985, Handmaid's Tale) and other tragedies (The Crucible). I felt I'd seen these characters before in other text (Ellis Peters perhaps?) So what is the new message? Is it for its time, is it the setting in a realistic England that disturbs so? originality is what stops it being a 5.

[Charlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this one. Dystopian England, small cast, very clear characters - great story, great world.

[Ioana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would look great on stage, I can tell by just reading it.
A great story.

[Emy Custódio · Rating 5 out of 5]

I— It's 1 am and I'm having an existential crisis... and holy mother, I need to talk to people about this.

[alelovestea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mindfucking 😅 but a good one, a play that makes you think and leaves you wondering what you've just read... If I had to describe it I would say it has 1984 vibes

[Shifty Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.8

Really interesting concept. Think this could have been longer and the system of government better explained, but I loved reading it, it was very gripping and exciting.

[lils · Rating 4 out of 5]

brilliantly Arthur Miller-esque. “I just shot a fox” absolutely devoured. love a deranged Abigail-variant antagonist.

[Rhian]

I think what I just read was a slightly more personal version of 1984. Equally disturbing, if not even more emotionally violent, and generally just better characters though. I hated all of them obviously but at the same time I could understand their behaviour.

[George · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting play with intense symbolisms, but without a pick.