Miss Julie

Performances and adaptations

The work is widely known for its many adaptations.

Angelique Rockas as Miss Julie and Garry Cooper as Jean, Internationalist Theatre 1984
  • In 1912, Anna Hofman-Uddgren directed a film version, based on her own and Gustaf Uddgren's screenplay; Manda Björling played Julie and August Falck played Jean (based in turn on the stage production in Stockholm in 1906).[11]
  • In 1913, with the title Countess Julia, it was directed by Mary Shaw on Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre for three performances.[12]
  • In 1922, Felix Basch directed the German silent version starring Asta Nielsen, William Dieterle, and Lina Lossen.[13][14]
  • In 1935, it was revived at the Arts Theatre in London in a translation by Roy Campbell with Rosalinde Fuller as Julie and Robert Newton as Jean.[15]
  • In 1947, it was adapted as the Argentine film The Sin of Julia. It was directed by Mario Soffici and featured Amelia Bence and Alberto Closas as the main characters.
  • In 1949, it was performed at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London with Joan Miller[16] as Julie and Duncan Lamont as Jean.[17]
  • In 1950, Birgit Cullberg made a ballet version to music of Ture Rangström.
  • In 1951, Alf Sjöberg made a film version from his own screenplay.[18]
  • In 1956, Dennis Vance directed a television version, with Mai Zetterling and Tyrone Power as Julie and Jean.[19]
  • In 1960, it was performed in Elizabeth Sprigg's translation at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London with Diane Cilento as Julie and Leon Peers as Jean.[17]
  • In 1962, it was directed by Alf Sjöberg on Broadway at the Cort Theatre for three performances, with Inga Tidblad as Miss Julie and Ulf Palme as Jean.[12]
  • In 1965, it was adapted as an opera by Ned Rorem to an English libretto by Kenward Elmslie.
  • In 1973, Antonio Bibalo wrote an opera (revised in 1975) which has been performed over 160 times in Germany.
  • In 1974, John Glenister and Robin Phillips directed a television version, with Helen Mirren and Donal McCann as Julie and Jean.[20]
  • In 1977, William Alwyn's opera, with an English libretto adapted from the play by the composer, was premiered as a BBC Radio 3 broadcast.
  • In 1977, Louise Lee played the Hong Kong version of Miss Julie in an episode of a TV series directed by Patrick Tam (film director) as an early work of his filming career. This 7-episode TV series with the name meaning "7 Females" attempted to depict the stories of 7 different females in the late 70's of Hong Kong.
  • In 1983, Judy Davis and Colin Friels performed the play at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney.[21]
  • The 1984 Internationalist Theatre London production was characterized by the disruption of ethnic preconceptions with a "small,dark" Angelique Rockas depicting Miss Julie in a performance of great depth[22] Garry Cooper played Jean.[23][24]
  • In 1986, Bob Heaney and Mikael Wahlforss directed a television adaptation, set in South Africa in the 1980s, in which the two main characters were separated by race as well as class and gender.[25] It was based on a 1985 stage production at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Sandra Prinsloo played Julie and John Kani played Jean.
  • In 1987, Michael Simpson directed a television version, in which Patrick Malahide played Jean and Janet McTeer played Julie.
  • In 1991, David Ponting directed a television version, in which Sean Galuszka played Jean and Eleanor Comegys played Julie.[26]
  • In 1995, Patrick Marber wrote and directed After Miss Julie, in which the events of the play were transposed to an English country house on the eve of the Labour Party's landslide 1945 General Election win. The play was staged in 2003.[27]
  • In 1995, Braham Murray directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Amanda Donohoe as Miss Julie, Patrick O'Kane as Jean and Marie Francis as Christine.
  • In 1995, a new version by Roger Sansom opened at the Kenneth More Theatre, London with Jay Berry and thereafter Juliet Dover as Julie, opposite Robert Flint as Jean.
  • In 1999, Mike Figgis made a film version from a screenplay by Helen Cooper; Saffron Burrows played Julie and Peter Mullan played Jean.
  • In 2005, it was adapted as an opera by Philippe Boesmans to a German libretto by Luc Bondy.
  • In July 2006, a new translation by Frank McGuinness was produced at the Theatre Royal, Bath by director Rachel O'Riordan. Set in 19th-century Northern Ireland; this version relies on the tension between the Roman Catholic Irish servant class and Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry to carry Strindberg's message to an English-speaking audience.
  • In 2009, the Roundabout Theatre Company produced After Miss Julie in New York, directed by Mark Brokaw and starring Sienna Miller, Jonny Lee Miller and Marin Ireland (as Christine).
  • In 2009, Toronto's CanStage staged a new version titled Miss Julie: Freedom Summer. Set in Mississippi in 1964, with Julie recontextualized as the daughter of a plantation owner and John as her father's African-American chauffeur, playwright Stephen Sachs wove in themes of racial violence and miscegeny against the backdrop of the American Civil Rights Movement. This production starred Caroline Cave and Kevin Hanchard.[28]
  • In 2010, The Schaubühne produced a new version from the perspective of the fiancée, Kristin's perspective with live video and foley effects directed by Katie Mitchell and Leo Warner.[29]
  • In 2011 on stage of Theatre of Nations (Moscow), directed by Thomas Ostermeier. The action of the play is set in contemporary Russia for which one of Russia's most called-for new generation playwrights, Mikhail Durnenkov, wrote especially for Theatre of Nations a new version of the play. All the main story lines are preserved, while the dialogues have been rewritten in modern lexicon.[30]
  • In 2012, Andrew Dallmeyer directed a Vagabond Productions version of the play in Edinburgh.[31]
  • In April 2012, Sarah Frankcom directed a 4-hand version by David Eldridge at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Maxine Peake as Miss Julie, Joe Armstrong as Jean, Carla Henry as Kristin and Liam Gerrard as The Fiddler.[32] Maxine Peake won a Manchester Theatre Award for best actress in 2013.
  • In July 2012, Yaël Farber's contemporary reworking set in South Africa, titled Mies Julie, was premiered by Cape Town's Baxter Theatre Centre. The show was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012 as part of Assembly Festival's South African Season, then transferred to St. Ann's Warehouse in New York City and on 7 February 2014 opened at the Octagon Theatre in Perth (Western Australia) as part of the Perth International Arts Festival program.[33]
  • In 2013, Liv Ullmann directed a film adaptation set in Ireland, with Jessica Chastain as the eponymous character and Colin Farrell as Jean.[34]
  • In 2015, Fia-Stina-Sandlund directed the movie She's Wild Again Tonight, a contemporary and radical interpretation of Miss Julie starring Gustaf Norén and Shima Niavarani. With feminism and anti-racism as weapons, She's Wild Again Tonight examines the modern gender roles in the young urban conscious sphere and blurs the boundaries between reality, drama and fiction.[35]
  • In May 2016, Melbourne Theatre Company presented an adaptation of Miss Julie adapted and directed by Kip Williams
  • In May 2017, an adaptation by Garret David Kim and directed by Andrew Watkins was presented at Access theater in New York City. [36]
  • In 2018, it was adapted (in a contemporary reworking) as an opera Juliana by Joseph Phibbs to an English libretto by Laurie Slade.[37]
  • In 2018, a contemporary adaptation by Polly Stenham starring Vanessa Kirby titled Julie opened at the Royal National Theatre in London. It was broadcast worldwide as a National Theatre Live screening.[38]
  • In spring 2019, an adaptation by Hilary Bettis set during Miami's Art Basel festival, titled "Queen of Basel", premiered at Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.[39]
  • In 2021, Amy Ng set a version in 1948 Hong Kong. It followed the plot quite faithfully but added the background of post World War 2 Hong Kong adjusting to life in the British Empire and the rise of Communist China. It played on-line and at The Southwark Playhouse in London.[40][41]
  • In 2021, Michael Omoke’s adaptation “Miss Julie’s Happy Valley” had its world première in Denmark’s Folketeatret and subsequently toured to Finland where it debuted at Helsinki University of Arts. Omoke’s reworked script, set in Karen Blixen era Kenya under British rule of the first half in the last century, bases the title character ,Miss Julie, as a portrait of countess Alice de Janze, the real life American Native New Yorker married into French Aristocracy, who scandalized British Kenya’s "White Highlands" of 1920s - 1940s as the femme fatale member of Happy Valley. The expression “Happy Valley” was coined to a group of ultra-privileged Aristocrats infamous for their debauched hedonistic lifestyle in the colony ( at the expense of “natives” ) whose story was told in the 1980s film 'White Mischief'.They captured world imagination when their unelected leader, Josslyn Victor Hay 22nd Early of Erroll was found dead in his Buick the morning of 28th Jan 1941. Countess Alice de Janze, whom Lord Erroll conducted a clandestine relationship with, tragically committed suicide the same year. To date, 81 years later, the crime remains one of the century's great unresolved mystery. ‘Miss Julie Happy Valley’ unequivocally solves it once and for all.

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