Coming: AFTER MISS JULIE

Strindberg's Miss Julie is a powerful play, which is also very strange and hard to make believable, since so much happens in a very short time, and the characters are extreme. But it is such an interesting play that people keep trying. (Here's one translation of Strindberg's script, including Strindberg's preface.)

In a new interpretation, changed enough, I guess, so that the name itself is slightly changed, one of the world's most exciting new playwrights, and three powerful young actors present their version at the American Airlines Theater in September as part of the Roundabout's new season.

After Miss Julie
By Patrick Marber
Directed by Mark Brokaw
With Sienna Miller, Jonny Lee Miller, Marin Ireland

Sept. 18 - Dec. 6, 2009
The Roundabout Theater Company
The American Airlines Theater
227 West 42 Street (btw 7th & 8th)

Patrick Marber wrote Closer.

Sienna Miller was recently in Interview and The Edge of Love.She's in G. I. Joe coming out this summer (Aug 7, 2009).

She was also in lots of gossip stories.

Marin Ireland was in Reasons To Be Pretty on Broadway, and is a rising star in films and theater.

Jonny Lee Miller was in Trainspotting. Some trivia (from Wikipedia) -- Jonny Lee Miller was in Hackers and married his co-star Angelina Jolie; he ran the London Maration in about 3 hours. He played the lead in Eli Stone, a series I rather liked, that was cancelled after 2 seasons (possibly a victim of the Writer's Strike).

Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller, though both named "Miller" are not related.

The Story
In his new interpretation of August Strindberg's classic drama about class and sex, Miss Julie, playwright Patrick Marber transposes Miss Julie to the English countryside in 1945. Sequestered in her grandmother's country house on the eve of the Labour Party's historic landslide victory, young Miss Julie engages in a forbidden flirtation that quickly spins into a life and death struggle for power.

After Miss Julie
The Roundabout Theater Company

Sept. 18 - Dec. 6, 2009

American Airlines Theatre
227 West 42 St. (7th & 8th Aves)
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