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Miss Julie: “You wanted to die for me”
Jean: “Women always fall for pretty stories”
Latvian director Vladislavs Nastavshevs, who trained with Lev Dodin at the acclaimed Maly Theatre, Moscow, is bringing a magnetic and intimate contemporary rendering of Strindberg’s masterpiece text to the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre from June 4.
It is Midsummer’s Eve and the servants on the estate of the Count are celebrating. With her father absent, Miss Julie mingles graciously. It is only a matter of time however before the peasants and their spirit of reckless abandon win over the Count’s daughter and she throws off the shackles of her aristocratic pedigree, leaving her unabashedly yet unstably in the arms of her father's valet, Jean.
A psycho-sexual pas de deux ensues – a balancing act where the stakes are the highest imaginable. Miss Julie delves deep into the messy undercurrents of our modern society: the desire for power, class, weapons of exploitation, emotional weapons of sexual manipulation, and the cornerstone of our modern world – the notion that not all men are created equal.
Jean: "Miss Julie’s gone mad again tonight. Completely mad!”
“It is… Strindberg’s horror of, and fascination with, need in all human beings – the need for authority, the need to be defiled or overcome – that gives his work its peculiar lasting power.” The New Yorker
Vanilla Productions and B Sharp present
Miss Julie
Written by August Strindberg
Directed by Vladislavs Nastavshevs
Costume Designer Rita Carmody
Designer Alice Morgan
Producer Saskia Moore
Sound Designer Ben Lighthowlers
With: Laurence Breuls, Katie Fitchett and Julie Moore
Venue: Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills
Preview: 4 June 2008
Opening: Thursday 5 June
Season: 5 – 22 June 2008
Times: Tues 7pm, Wed-Sat 8.15pm, Sun 5.15pm
Tickets: $29/$23 (Preview $20, Cheap Tues Pay-what-you-can min $10)
Bookings: 9699 3444 or www.belvoir.com.au
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