Baxter Theatre Center
Mies Julie
The Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town in collaboration with the South African State Theatre presents
MIES JULIE
Written and Directed by Yaël Farber
Based on Miss Julie by August Strindberg
The Athens Festival introduces its audience to a remarkable South African theatre group who arrive with a compelling performance. Strindberg’s controversial work (1888) brings to the stage, as if in a ritual of conflict, the clash between the two sexes, two social classes, and two inner worlds. In the pagan euphoria of a midsummer’s night the servant leads the count’s daughter to her destruction—“with the brutality of the slave and the indifference of the master.” What experiences, memories, images and feelings will the will Yael Farber deploy in her adaptation; exploring the relentless game of power and seduction, perpetrator and victim that is played out between the white woman, Julie, and the black man, John?
In English with Greek surtitles.
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Duration 90'
Peiraios 260
- 11/06/2015 at 21:00
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