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Miss Julie, Jermyn Street Theatre London
August Strindberg's febrile drama of class and sex conflicts gets an outstanding production
Power play: Charlotte Hamblin and James Sheldon in Miss Julie
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
SET on Midsummer’s Eve in Sweden— a time for partying, rule-breaking and indulging in the forbidden — August Strindberg described his 1888 play Miss Julie as “a naturalistic tragedy.”
Immersed in a world where the lower orders and the ruling classes co-exist in a seemingly perpetual dependency, his most popular work homes in on a fateful night in an aristocratic home, where madness is in the air and the servants revel in abandon.
During it, the upper-class Miss Julie — in a story that almost tells itself — rocks the social code to its foundations when she seduces the handsome valet Jean.
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