Miss Julie

SO I just popped over to another venue (C Electric) to see one of my favorite plays, or rather a play by my favorite playwright. Miss Julie by August Strindberg. It was a really bad translation, but the actors handled it well. I must say that the sexual promiscuity covered for some of the lack of misogyny in this adaptation. The power John exerts over Miss Julie in their tryst is almost enough to make up for the strong willed and independent portrayal of Christine. But this is just my opinion. And I read Strindberg as a man very angry with the other sex. Of course, he is the one who once wrote that the goal of woman was to subvert man, and the goal of man to crush woman. In all, it was an alright play, but not worth the £8.50 for the ticket.

HARVY