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After Miss Julie
Malvern Theatres
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playwright August originally wrote Miss Julie in 1888 about the social
conflict he identified between the upper classes and their paid
servants.
Writer Patrick Marber (Film Closer, Television
co-writer of Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge) wrote this play
for BBC2 in 1995 not as a new translation of Strindberg's original but a
new version, a version After Miss Julie, and a version which saw its
stage debut in 2003. Helen George (Call the Midwife, Strictly Come
Dancing) plays M This naturalistic play takes place in the kitchen
of a large country house outside of London in 1945, a set where you can
smell the food being cooked.
It is set the night and morning after Clement
Attlee's Labour Party won their famous landslide election victory.
During one scene the dancing from an upstairs party was superbly
sequenced using a video recording, projected above the kitchen area,
scoring a seven from Len. By pushing the play forward to 1945 and only two
months after Nazi Germany had surrendered, Marber draws out the play’s
underlying tensions of class
conflict and how radically people's attitudes had changed. All three performances were flesh and blood
realistic, the conflicts meaningful and the play was kept simple without
any complicated subplots. To Saturday 11-06-16. Johnathan Gray 07-06-16
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Julie a rich lady in her 20s, the last of an old aristocratic breed
about to die out. Richard Flood plays John a valet/chauffeur in his 30s
with aspirations to rise from his station in life and manage his own
club in a city. And Amy Cudden plays Christine, a cook in her mid 30s
who is devoutly religious and apparently betrothed to John.