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Preview by Jack Foley
FOLLOWING their successful run of Mishima's Sotoba Komachi
and The Damask Drum at the Greenwich Playhouse last
year, Stonecrabs returns in February with a production of Miss
Julie - the famously controversial work from August Strindberg.
Miss Julie is the daughter of a count, a young woman rebelling
against her standing in 1880s society.
As the midsummer's night party roars around her mansion, she
heads for the kitchen, where she encounters her father's duplicitous
footman, Jean, and his fiancée, Christine.
But there's a spark of interest between Julie and Jean, who begin
a chess match of sexual and class politics that will obliterate
all barriers between them ... and create new ones as each strives
for the upper hand, lashes out and struggles with their self-image
and place in society.
Nineteenth century society paid Strindberg’s Miss Julie
perhaps the highest compliment they could: they banned performances
of the play.
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Even Sweden, Strindberg's country
of origin, slammed the door on him, helping ensure his lasting
fame.
More than a century later, Miss Julie can still get
and keep our attention with its timeless tale of a wealthy woman
who, flouting convention through sexual advances towards her father’s
highest-ranking servant, ultimately spirals towards a tragic fate.
With his signature of depth and power, Strindberg uncovers the
epoch’s social, personal and erotic tensions in the eponymous
Julie, who anticipates feminist sexual liberation.
The play stars Davies Grey, Antony Jardine and Abigail Hubbert
and runs at the Greenwich Playhouse from February 8 to March 6.
Greenwich Playhouse, Greenwich Station Forecourt, 189
Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA.
Box Office 020 8858 9256
Email: Boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk
Tickets: £11; £8 (concs)
Produced by StoneCrabs; Directed by Franko Figueiredo
and Natacha Metherell; Production Assistant/Consultant - Tereza
Araujo / Lauren Graham; Set design by Lu Firth & Anna Cottray;
Costume Design by Lu Firth; Lighting Design by Tom White; Music
by Dinah Mullen; Prop Maker - Yoko Terashima; Production Management
- Nafeesah Butt & Dominque Pierre-Louis; Stage Management
- Jasmine Sandalli; Jaspreet Suraj and Yoko Terashima; Photography
by Elena Machado.
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