Miss Julie

by August Strindberg
Version by Helen Cooper
directed by Mark Jackson
EXTENDED to May 17, 2009!

show length: 90 minutes, no intermission

The celebrated Mark Jackson (Salome) returns to bring his unforgettable style to Strindberg’s classic and controversial chamber play. Miss Julie is the volatile daughter of a count. During the intoxication of a midsummer’s eve celebration, she flirts shamelessly with one of her servants and seduces him, thus beginning an erotic dance of sexual politics and class warfare.

Written in 1888, Miss Julie remains a masterwork. Bruce Weber of The New York Times has called it “an amazing play that still terrifies with its insoluble equation of sex, class and death.” Miss Julie influenced Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire as well as countless other 20th-century dramas.

"A magnetic, multifaceted dance of fear, curiosity, forbidden-fruit flirtation, desire, abandon, recriminations and sympathy." - SF Chronicle (read the full review)

"A heat-seeking production that is anything but conventional!" - Theater Dogs (read the full review)

"A Dramatic Masterpiece!" - KGO Radio (read the full review)