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Nancy Medina’s “Max Porter” Play Ends With Pagan Mercy

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Story summary
  • Director Nancy Medina stages Max Porter’s novel about a missing boy in England.
  • Rebecca Jane Wood designs a haunted set blending village houses with eerie woodland screens.
  • Raj Bajaj plays Robert, a father whose son Lanny (Lucian Thomas) disappears.
  • The production mixes horror, humour and green-man mythology while satirising English country life.
  • The final scene turns hallucinatory, hinting at a pagan god’s mercy as a happy ending.