I recently went to see After Miss Julie at The Storefront Theatre.
After Miss Julie is a play by Patrick Marber that takes place entirely at an English country house in July 1945. It re-imagines events of August Strindberg’s original Miss Julie (1888) and are shifted to the night of the British Labour Party’s”landslide” election victory. There are only three characters; Miss Julie, a rich young woman in her mid-20s, and two servants: John, a valet/chauffeur, aged 30, and Christine, a cook aged 35.
It’s an amusing and enjoying play. The play definitely pulls you in from the very start with the characters setting the stage with minimal interaction with the audience. The display of the intertwining relationships between these three characters, the costumes, the scandals and gossip, and the tension between the classes were all riveting and interesting to watch.
