Schaubuehne Berlin – Katie Mitchell

August Strindberg, Miss Julie

“With the brutality of a slave and the indifference of a master” the servant destroys the daughter of the Count one midsummer night, and along with her—symbolically—her class.
 
Here, the pitiless game of lust and power is presented to us by the celebrated German theatre company and two distinguished English artists (making their Greek debut) through the eyes of a third person: Christine, the cook of few words.
 
The Athens Festival is proud to add to its celebration of Strindberg Year (which includes a Greek production of Miss Julie) this addictive adaptation of a truly seminal work which so incensed both the censors and the police in 1889.