Miss Julie: A Play

by Neil LaBute, August Strindberg

Overview

Against a glittering jazz-age backdrop, mistress of the house Julie and ambitious servant John face off in a gripping, night-long encounter. As the balance of power shifts often and dangerously—-sometimes with exquisite subtlety, sometimes stark brutality-—LaBute masterfully reinterprets Strindberg’s timeless erotic struggle between a man and a woman. This thrilling, essential Miss Julie, which had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in 2013 with Lily Rabe as Julie, Logan Marshall-Green as John, and Laura Heisler as Kristine, superbly embodies both the passionate spirit of the original and the unflinching style of Neil LaBute.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468314076
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	05/09/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	865,377
File size:	875 KB

About the Author

Neil LaBute's plays include bash, Reasons to Be Happy, The Money Shot, and The Way We Get By. His films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. Television includes Billy & Billie and Van Helsing. He is a Lucille Lortel Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee and a recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

What People are Saying About This

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"Neil LaBute is the most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today."—-David Amsden, New York

"Like Harold Pinter, Mr. LaBute understands language as power."—-Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"A connoisseur of unsettling emotion . . . LaBute's psychological terrain is the punishing slippery slope of ambivalence. In his hands, this bedeviling state of spiritual stasis comes with a distinctive sound, a sensational hemming and hawing, which poetically betrays the mind boxing clever with itself."—John Lahr, The New Yorker

"LaBute's view of modern men and women is unsparing . . . He is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves."—Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News

 

Editorial Reviews

"Neil LaBute is the most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today."—-David Amsden, New York

"Like Harold Pinter, Mr. LaBute understands language as power."—-Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"A connoisseur of unsettling emotion . . . LaBute's psychological terrain is the punishing slippery slope of ambivalence. In his hands, this bedeviling state of spiritual stasis comes with a distinctive sound, a sensational hemming and hawing, which poetically betrays the mind boxing clever with itself."—John Lahr, The New Yorker

"LaBute's view of modern men and women is unsparing . . . He is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves."—Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News 

From the Publisher