After Miss Julie
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Written byPatrick Marber
Date premiered20 November 2003
Place premiered
England
Original languageEnglish
| After Miss Julie | |
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After Miss Julie Original West End Production Poster | |
| Written by | Patrick Marber |
| Date premiered | 20 November 2003 |
| Place premiered | |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Comedy Drama |
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After Miss Julie is a 1995 play by Patrick Marber which relocates August Strindberg's naturalist tragedy, Miss Julie (1888), to an English country house in July 1945. The re-imagining of the events of Strindberg's original are transposed to the night of the British Labour Party's "landslide" election victory.
There are only three characters in After Miss Julie; Miss Julie, a rich lady in her 20s, and two servants: John, a valet/chauffeur, aged 30, and Christine, a cook, aged 35. The action takes place in the kitchen of a large country house outside London, when the British Labour Party have just won their famous 'landslide' election victory.