The injustice taking place on stage is enough to drive the audience up the brick walls of St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. An elementary school teacher, played by Tobias Menzies, is falsely accused of molesting one of his 6-year-old students — an accusation that inspires four other students to make similar bogus claims.
What’s a guy to do? And more important, how’s an audience supposed to react to a character being turned into a human bullseye in scene after scene for nearly two hours without intermission? The 2012 film was adapted by David Farr from Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm’s screenplay and the production was staged by London’s Almeida Theatre, before receiving its American premiere Sunday at St.