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City Lit's The Night of the Hunter is a satisfying dark yarn

by Albert Williams

City Lit Theater's stage adaptation of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel has a dark, homespun, campfire-tale feel that suits the folksy tone of its suspenseful Southern Gothic narrative. The Night of the Hunter recounts the ordeal of two runaway children"ten-year-old John Harper and his five-year-old sister, Pearl"being pursued by a vicious killer in rural 1930s West […] The post City Lit's <i>The Night of the Hunter&…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 9:30am on November 3, 2023