Written in a fortnight and often regarded as Strindberg's
masterpiece, Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter,
revolutionary in technique, and was fiercely attacked on
publication for immorality. Sweden, 1894. Midsummer night's
celebrations are in full swing but the Count's daughter, the
beautiful and imperious Miss Julie, feels trapped and alone.
Downstairs in the servants' kitchen, handsome and rebellious
footman Jean is feeling restless. When they meet a passion is
ignited that soon spirals out of control. Strindberg's masterpiece
caused a scandal when first produced - and has been hugely popular
ever since - for its viscerally honest portrait of the class system
and human sexuality. The conflict between sexual passion and social
position is presented in Miss Julie with startling modernity. The
play's premiere at Strindberg's experimental theatre in Denmark in
1889 was banned by the censor and its first public production three
years later in Berlin aroused such protests that it was withdrawn
after one performance. Miss Julie has since become one of
Strindberg's most popular and frequently performed plays. This new
version by highly-acclaimed playwright and translator David
Eldridge is contemporary but faithful, and combines accessibility
with fluency.
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