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Miss Julie

Riverside Studios, Outer London
From: Thursday, 7th March 2013
To: Sunday, 19 May 2013

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Synopsis

Midsummer's Eve, Sweden, 1888. The Count's daughter and his valet cross social and sexual boundaries; and must face the consequences. While the servants' party continues in the barn outside, aristocratic Miss Julie is drawn to the kitchen and to the socially ambitious Jean, her father's valet. What starts as a harmless flirtation, soon descends into a ferocious power struggle and battle of the sexes, from which neither can escape.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 12 March 2013

Not so much a new version as a total re-write, this raw and coruscating post-apartheid South African transplant of Strindberg's play was the buzz production at last year's Edinburgh Festival fringe. For once, reality matches expectation: Yael Farber's production for the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town is a total blast.

If it has a fault, it's to do with burdening the play with more political, sexual and historical cargo than it can bear. But the performances of Hilda Cronje as the white farm girl Julie and Bongile Mantsai as the black worker Jean - still polishing his master's boots, but stripped to a white vest and beige overalls - are literally electrifying.

Both actors are wired, taut, athletic and fearless in a dance of vengeful self-defence that ends with an act of brutish sexual congress on the kitchen table, not unlike that of Jack Nicholson and Jessica...

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