Performances / Szigligeti Company / 2025-2026
August Strindberg
Miss Julie
A co-production with the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts
drama
Translated by:: László Lontay
Although Strindberg primarily established his fame through his naturalist novels, his work as a playwright and in theatre had a decisive influence on Swedish drama. It was also strongly felt on foreign stages. Initially, he wrote mainly romantic plays, but in 1886, he penned his first naturalistic play, The Comrades. He wrote Miss Julie in 1888. This one-act play is significant not only because of its bold subject matter but also because Strindberg outlined his program for stage naturalism in the play’s preface: changing characters, developing personalities, one-act structure, continuous performance lasting about an hour and a half, avoiding spectacle in the set design, emphasizing facial expressions by eliminating footlights, darkened, small auditorium, etc. Miss Julie’s performance was banned by Swedish censorship, but foreign theatres quickly discovered it, and it has since been performed with great success worldwide.
A deadly mixture of love and guilt, desire and frustration, secrets and lies. On Midsummer’s Eve, the world turns upside down—the servant dictates, the mistress submits: on festive nights, everyone becomes someone else. On such a night, in the madness of alcohol and intoxication, everyone comes closer to who they are and what they share in common. On this night, people reflect on their past and present. Through their story, we, too, are invited to look into ourselves—this is how Funk Iván describes the play he is about to stage.
Synopsis translated by: Gellért Farkas.
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Premier: 2006.12.09
