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Julie review " Polly Stenham's modern take on Strindberg misses the mark by Michael Billington

Lyttelton, LondonThe Crown's Vanessa Kirby impresses but this updated version of the class-conscious tragedy is overblownPolly Stenham is not the first dramatist to update Strindberg's Miss Julie. Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie relocated the action to the night of Labour's election victory in 1945. Yaël Farber's Mies Julie set the story in a post-apartheid South Africa still simmering with racial and class tens…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM on June 8, 2018

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