Egner's Clammy Hand Makes This a Kind of Museum Piece

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“The fox isn’t usually that rocking,” I hear a spectator say to his younger companion – who responds by making some slightly jazzy movements with his hips. It’s been well over sixty years since The Animals in Hakkebakkeskogen had its premiere, and it’s the actors’ movements that are perhaps what sets these two productions apart the most. It’s not just Thorbjørn Egner’s text that forms the basis for the productions of the play, it’s also his draw…