Bold 'Mies Julie' Sets Strindberg in South Africa
The late-19th-century classic “Miss Julie,” by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, is yanked ferociously into present-day South Africa in this galvanizing adaptation by Yael Farber, a native South African writer and director now living in Montreal. With its frank (some might say overwrought) depiction of class struggle and sexual domination, Strindberg’s work was a controversial landmark in natura…