Mies Julie by David Kaufman

Yaël Farber's adaptation of Strindberg's classic "Miss Julie," "Mies Julie" shifts the scene and setting from 1880's Sweden to the Karoo in South Africa on Freedom Day in 2012--or the anniversary of Nelson Mandela's election in 1994--which is long after apartheid was outlawed. Such changes shift Strindberg's focus on the class system to matters of racism and apartheid today, when, despite any suggestions that we'v…

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