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Photo by Roger Bosch. Bongile Mantsai as John and Hilda Cronje as Mies Julie
Mies Julie, director and playwright Yaël Farber’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, is a striking piece of theatre, which retains the basic plot, principal characters, and many of the ideas of the original, while transposing it to a very different world. Strindberg’s nineteenth-century Miss Julie takes place on a Swedish estate on Midsummer Eve, a time of unbridled fun, one which creates a space for the brief affair between Julie and the valet Jean.