Current Season
Miss Julie: Freedom Summer
Jan 10 - Jan 31
Miss Julie: Freedom Summer
A new version by Stephen Sachs,
from the play by August Strindberg
Directed by Stephen Sachs
A co-production with The Canadian Stage Company
Cast:
Caroline Cave as Miss Julie
Kevin Hanchard as John
Raven Dauda as Christine
Production:
Set & Costume Design: Pam Johnson
Lighting Design: Alan Brodie
"Sach's adaptation brings new power to an old play." eOpinions.com
"The excellent script, the direction and the performances of the professional cast all rang true. Miss Julie is an outstanding theatrical experience, and is highly recommended." Daily Sound
"Strindberg’s masterful liebestod, a dark ballad to the hungry forces within that both liberate and destroy." Los Angeles Times
"Bathed in Mississippi heat and sweat, Stephen Sachs’ free adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, which opened Friday at Center Stage Theater, maintains its hellish battles of class and gender, but makes us look at the play with fresh eyes." Santa Barbara News-Press
"Critics Choice: The tension in the original – in which a young, upper-class woman and her servant sexually cross the class divide – is multiplied by adding the racial divide. Miss Julie is white, and the servant is her father’s black chauffeur. For American audiences, the play is much more harrowing than usual." Los Angeles City-Beat
Still shocking audiences 40 years after its debut, Miss Julie puts class and gender on a collision course with changing moralities. Set in the heart of Mississippi on a steamy summer night in 1964,More