Miss Julie - Softcover

Strindberg, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848426879 ISBN 13: 9781848426870

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2018

Synopsis

Midsummer's Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn't set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules.

When Julie finds herself alone on her father's estate, she throws caution to the wind and gate-crashes the servants' party. In the sultry heat of that long, light night, she finds herself in a dangerous tryst with her father's manservant, Jean. What begins as a flirtatious game, as the two vie for power, slowly descends into a savage fight for survival.

About this title

About the Author:

August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. His plays include The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), To Damascus (1898), The Dance of Death (1900), A Dream Play (1902) and The Ghost Sonata (1908).

Howard Brenton was born in Portsmouth in 1942. His many plays include Christie in Love (Portable Theatre, 1969); Revenge (Theatre Upstairs, 1969); Magnificence (Royal Court Theatre,1973); The Churchill Play (Nottingham Playhouse, 1974, and twice revived by the RSC, 1978 and 1988); Bloody Poetry (FocoNovo, 1984, and Royal Court Theatre, 1987); Weapons of Happiness (National Theatre, Evening Standard Award, 1976); Epsom Downs (Joint Stock Theatre, 1977); Sore Throats (RSC,1978); The Romans in Britain (National Theatre, 1980, revived at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2006); Thirteenth Night (RSC,1981); The Genius (1983), Greenland (1988) and Berlin Bertie (1992), all presented by the Royal Court; Kit’s Play (RADA Jerwood Theatre, 2000); Paul (National Theatre, 2005); In Extremis (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2006 and 2007); Never So Good (National Theatre, 2008); The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists adapted from the novel by Robert Tressell (Liverpool Everyman and Chichester Festival Theatre, 2010); Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2010 and 2011); 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); The Guffin (NT Connections, 2013); Drawing the Line (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); Doctor Scroggy's War (Shakespear

Review:

"Never before have I seen such urgency and conviction that these few hours on a topsy-turvy Midsummer’s Eve in late-19th-century Sweden really are a matter of life or death... Howard Brenton's confident adaptation breathes new life into this much-revived classic." —Evening Standard

(2018-10-19)

"A kitchen sink drama of the most intense variety... the tension starts to build from the very first sizzle in the pan." —The Times

(2018-10-19)

"Riveting... as real and sensational now as ever and as socially and politically pertinent." —Guardian

(2018-10-19)

"Strindberg’s passion play remains as resonant today in Howard Brenton’s new translation as it was when first performed in the Paris of 1893." —The Observer

(2018-10-19)

"Intense and visceral." —The Stage

(2018-10-19)

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1848426879
• ISBN 13: 9781848426870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96