Strindberg claimed that he wrote Miss Julie during a month of “enforced celibacy” in 1888. The resulting tragedy has a snarling, pent-up energy. Patrick Marber’s 1995 version, originally written for TV, unfolds in a similarly compact 75 minutes – but turns less on sex than a very British class warfare.
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