"door with it, presumably to commit suicide. Miss Julie Miss Julie () is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a count in Sweden. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean, who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read. The action takes place in the kitchen of Miss Julie's father's manor, where Jean's fiancée, a servant named Christine, cooks and sometimes sleeps while Jean and Miss Julie talk. On this night the relationship between Miss Julie and Jean escalates rapidly"
"Mary Saunderson Mary Saunderson (1637–1712), later known as Mary Saunderson Betterton after her marriage to Thomas Betterton, was an actress and singer in England during the 1660s and 1690s. She is considered one of the first English actresses. Her most notable accomplishments are her being the first female actress to portray several of Shakespeare's woman characters on the professional stage. She was the first to portray Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"", Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"", and other female roles in ""The Tempest"", ""Hamlet"" (as Ophelia), ""Measure for Measure"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"", ""Twelfth Night"", ""King Lear"". In Shakespeare's day, female"
"buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Ada Cavendish Ada Cavendish (1839 – 5 October 1895) was an English actress known for her Shakespearean roles and for popularising the plays of Wilkie Collins in America . After her stage debut in 1863, beginning in musical burlesques by F. C. Burnand and others. Cavendish became known for playing such Shakespearean heroines as Juliet, Beatrice and Rosalind. She also famously played the title role of Miss Gwilt in the stage adaptation of ""Armadale"" and Mercy Merrick in ""The New Magdalen"", both by Wilkie Collins. She married Francis Albert Marshall (1840-1889), who published a"
"(1888), and ""Creditors"" (1889), he created naturalistic dramas that – building on the established accomplishments of Henrik Ibsen's prose problem plays while rejecting their use of the structure of the well-made play – responded to the call-to-arms of 's manifesto ""Naturalism in the Theatre"" (1881) and the example set by 's newly established (opened 1887). In ""Miss Julie"", characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the ""vacillating, disintegrated"" characters is emphasized. Strindberg modeled his short-lived Scandinavian Experimental Theatre (1889) in Copenhagen"
"Ada Cavendish Ada Cavendish (1839 – 5 October 1895) was an English actress known for her Shakespearean roles and for popularising the plays of Wilkie Collins in America . After her stage debut in 1863, beginning in musical burlesques by F. C. Burnand and others. Cavendish became known for playing such Shakespearean heroines as Juliet, Beatrice and Rosalind. She also famously played the title role of Miss Gwilt in the stage adaptation of ""Armadale"" and Mercy Merrick in ""The New Magdalen"", both by Wilkie Collins. She married Francis Albert Marshall (1840-1889), who published a scholarly edition of Shakespeare. She was"
"Joseph Arthur (playwright) Joseph Arthur (1848 – February 20, 1906) was an American playwright best known for his popular (though not critically acclaimed) melodramatic plays of the 1880s and 1890s, including ""The Still Alarm"" (1887) and ""Blue Jeans"" (1890). Arthur was born to John C. and Margaret Hill Smith in Centerville, Indiana in 1848 as Arthur Hill Smith. Most of his life was spent in New York City, where he arrived by the 1870s, but many of his plays took Indiana as their setting. His first successful play was ""The Still Alarm"", which opened in New York City in August"
"Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery. Constance theorizes that Shakespeare's tragedies, ""Othello"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"", were originally comedies, and believes the ideas for the plays originate from the indecipherable Gustav Manuscript. She believes this because, if a wise fool archetype were reinstated into the plays, they could not remain tragedies. However, she is too timid to show her skeptical boss, professor Claude Night, that she is right. In"
"in the Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit. Margaret Mather Margaret Mather (1859-1898) was a Canadian actress. She was born in poverty in Tilbury, Ontario as Margaret Finlayson, daughter of John Finlayson, a farmer and mechanic, and Ann Mather. She was one of the most famous Shakespearean actresses in the 1880s, although her reputation arose as much from clever publicity as from her skill. She premiered as Juliet in New York at the Union Square Theater in 1885. Heavy advance publicity guaranteed a large turnout, but response to her performance was mixed. While she was striking in her physicality and energy, many"
"Ulrik, the gamekeeper, shoots Miss Julie's dog. Jean eventually turns harshly on Miss Julie, to the point where he tells her to slit her wrists, as her mother had committed suicide prior. The opera ends as Miss Julie leaves the scene, presumably to take her own life. In 1992 Lyrita re-released on CD the recording made during the Kingsway Hall premiere production run on 23, 24, 25 and 26 January 1979. Vilem Tausky conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra. Miss Julie (Alwyn opera) Miss Julie is an opera in two acts by William Alwyn with a libretto by the composer, based on"
"Harold, Colonel Melkett, and Carol advance on Brindsley and Clea, Schuppanzigh turns on the lights with a great flourish. There is instant darkness. In the early spring of 1965, National Theatre dramaturge Kenneth Tynan commissioned Shaffer to write a one-act play to accompany a production of ""Miss Julie"" starring Maggie Smith and Albert Finney. Shaffer later wrote in the introduction to his 1982 Collected Plays: ""Without much conviction, but with the sort of energy which Tynan always elicited from me, I described my idea of a party given in a London flat, played in Chinese darkness-- full light--because of a"
"... exercise of the peculiarly fascinating powers of Miss Ellen Terry, who achieved an undoubted triumph ... and was cheered again and again"". Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in ""The Lady of Lyons"" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1878), Portia (1879), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama ""Charles I"" (1879), Desdemona in ""Othello"" (1881), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy ""The Cup"" (1881), Beatrice in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", another of her signature roles (1882 and often thereafter), Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1882), Jeanette in ""The Lyons Mail"" by Charles Reade (1883), the title part"
"foolish blather about her life off stage. Mary Saunderson Mary Saunderson (1637–1712), later known as Mary Saunderson Betterton after her marriage to Thomas Betterton, was an actress and singer in England during the 1660s and 1690s. She is considered one of the first English actresses. Her most notable accomplishments are her being the first female actress to portray several of Shakespeare's woman characters on the professional stage. She was the first to portray Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"", Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"", and other female roles in ""The Tempest"", ""Hamlet"" (as Ophelia), ""Measure for Measure"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"", ""Twelfth"
"of Death"" was presented as on three Wednesdays with Mary Keefe, Louis Vuolo and Dennis Davies. ""Miss Julie"" featured a biracial cast and the previously unstaged ballet, for which Strindberg provided a scenario in the original script in October 2014. Ivette Dumeng performed the title role, Reginald L. Wilson that of John and Eboni Flowers as Christine in Edgar Chisholm's adaptation, set in Louisiana in 1888, the year the play was written. Ja' Malik made the dance. ""Kristina"" was presented in March 2015 with Ms Dumeng again in the title role in a new translation by Wendy Weckwerth, directed by"
"Margaret Mather Margaret Mather (1859-1898) was a Canadian actress. She was born in poverty in Tilbury, Ontario as Margaret Finlayson, daughter of John Finlayson, a farmer and mechanic, and Ann Mather. She was one of the most famous Shakespearean actresses in the 1880s, although her reputation arose as much from clever publicity as from her skill. She premiered as Juliet in New York at the Union Square Theater in 1885. Heavy advance publicity guaranteed a large turnout, but response to her performance was mixed. While she was striking in her physicality and energy, many critics found her too indecorous and"
"Franz Kafka. August Falck, an actor, wanted to put on a production of ""Miss Julie"" and wrote to Strindberg for permission. In September 1906 he staged the first Swedish production of ""Miss Julie"". August Palme, Strindberg's friend, played Jean and Manda Bjorling played Julie. In 1909, Strindberg thought he might get the Nobel Prize in Literature, but instead lost to Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman and first Swede to win the award. The leader of the Social Democrat Youth Alliance started a fund-raiser for a special award. Nathan Söderblom was noted as a donor, yet he was criticized by the"
"Maria Foote Maria Stanhope, Countess of Harrington (1797?-1867), better known as Maria Foote, was an English actress and peeress in the nineteenth century. Foote was born 24 July 1797(?) at Plymouth. Her father, Samuel T. Foote (1761–1840), who claimed to be a descendant of Samuel Foote, sold out of the army, became manager of the Plymouth theatre, and married a Miss Hart. In July 1810 Miss Foote appeared as Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"" at her father's theatre, where she also played as Susan Ashfield in Thomas Morton's ""Speed the Plough"", and as Emily Worthington in George Colman's ""Poor Gentleman""."
"director Eduards Smiļģis, the original founder of the troupe. From 1949 - 1998 Artmane was the leading star of the troupe at the Daile Theatre in Riga. She played her best stage roles under the directorship of Smiļģis. Her most memorable stage works were such classic roles as Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1953), and Ophelia in ""Hamlet"" among other Shakespeare plays. Artmane also created important roles in Latvian plays such as ""Indulis and Ārija"" and ""Fire and Night"" under the direction of the National Actor of Latvia Rainis. She was critically acclaimed for her stage works in Russian plays,"
"version from Rigby's perspective on the insistence of Chastain. Three versions of the film""Him"", ""Her"", and ""Them""were released. It did not find a wide audience, but the critic A. O. Scott praised Chastain for ""short-circuit[ing] conventional distinctions between tough and vulnerable, showing exquisite control even when her character is losing it, and keeping her balance even when the movie pitches and rolls toward melodrama"". Chastain appeared in three films in 2014. She played the eponymous protagonist in ""Miss Julie"", a film adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 play of the same name, from director Liv Ullmann. It tells the tragic tale"
"""never again participated in theatrical management"". After being sold by Booth, the theatre was owned by several different managers, including the theatrical impresarios Augustin Daly and Dion Boucicault. Despite the appearances by important talent of the times, such as Dion Boucicault Jr., who made his stage début in his father's play, ""Louis XI"", Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle, Polish born actress Helena Modjeska as Juliet, and the French-born ""devine Sarah"" - Sarah Bernhardt - who appeared in her acclaimed production of ""Adrienne Lecouveur"" in 1881, and despite successful runs of comedies, such as Bronson Howard's smash hit ""Love in"
"Julia, renamed as 'Theatre Royal' and one in 1954, with Fredric March reprising his role as Tony, Helen Hayes as Fanny, and Claudette Colbert as Julie. The Royal Family (play) The Royal Family is a play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Its premiere on Broadway was at the Selwyn Theatre on 28 December 1927, where it ran for 345 performances to close in October 1928. It was included in Burns Mantle's ""The Best Plays of 1927–1928"". The story is a parody of the Barrymore family of actors, with particular aim taken at John Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore."
"Helena Faucit Helena Saville Faucit, Lady Martin (11 October 1817 – 31 October 1898) was an English actress. Born in London, she was the daughter of actors John Saville Faucit and Harriet Elizabeth Savill. Her parents separated when she was a girl, and her mother went to live with William Farren in 1825. With her elder sister Harriet, she was trained for the stage by her step-uncle, Percy Farren. She debuted as Juliet at a small theatre in Richmond in 1833. Her performance was praised by critics of ""The Athenaeum"", but Farren delayed her professional debut to give her further"
"Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with ""Hamlet"", is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. ""Romeo and Juliet"" belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as ""The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet"" by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and"
"1887 and wowed audiences with its climactic scene where fire wagons are pulled by horses to a blazing fire. In 1890, he followed up that success with ""Blue Jeans"", a huge melodramatic success of its time, best known for its scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill. Arthur married actress Charlotte Cobb. Joseph Arthur (playwright) Joseph Arthur (1848 – February 20, 1906) was an American playwright best known for his popular (though not critically acclaimed) melodramatic plays of the 1880s and 1890s, including ""The Still Alarm"" (1887) and ""Blue"
"(""Miscellaneous Verses"", 1810, reviewed by Scott in the ""Quarterly""; ""Christina, the Maid of the South Seas"", a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811; and ""Blanche"", part of a projected series of ""Narrative Poems on the Female Character"", in 1813). Her play ""Julian"" was produced at Covent Garden, with William Charles Macready in the title role, in 1823; ""Foscari"" at Covent Garden, with Charles Kemble as the hero, in 1826; while ""Rienzi"", 1828, the best of"
"Julia James Julia James (1890-1964) was an English actress of the 1900s Edwardian era, the leading lady at the Gaiety Theatre. Julia James was born in London in 1890. In 1905 she began her career in ""Supper Belle in Blue Bell"" at the Aldwych Theatre under Seymour Hicks. She was the leading lady at the Gaiety Theatre appearing in ""The Girls of Gottenburg"", ""Havana"" and ""Our Miss Gibbs"". She ""had wonderful red hair that attracted admiring glances wherever she went"". In 1913 she had the role of Sombra in ""The Arcadians"" at L'Olympia, Paris. In 1916 she is at the"
"Gunnel Lindblom Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom (born 18 December 1931) is a Swedish film actress and director. As an actress she has been particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in ""Miss Julie"" for BBC Television. She also played the key-role of The Mummy in Bergman's staging of Strindberg's ""The Ghost Sonata"" in 1998-2000, a performance that earned her much critical acclaim. She appeared on stage as Tintomara's mother in Carl Almqvist's play ""Drottningens juvelsmycke"" (English: ""The Queen's Tiara""), staged at Dramaten for the theatre's 100-year jubilee in 2008. In 2009,"
"and Settlers"" (1999); and ""Konings"" (1991) among others. Prinsloo has performed in more than 100 different productions, often playing leading roles in works by South African and international dramatists. In 1985, Prinsloo and fellow actor John Kani caused a South African audience walk-out when performing the play ""Miss Julie"" by August Strindberg. In the title role, Prinsloo played a white woman seducing a black man. The play marked the first on-stage occurrence of a black man kissing a white woman under the Apartheid regime. The play's producer, Bobby Heaney, speculated that the walk-out was ""part of a well planned campaign"
"After Juliet After Juliet is a play written by Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald. It was commissioned for the 1999 NT Shell Connections programme, in which regional youth theatre groups compete to stage short plays by established playwrights. The basic premise of the play, following on from Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" is ""What happened to the Capulets and Montagues after Romeo and Juliet died"". The setting of ""After Juliet"" is described as ""Verona. Or it could be Edinburgh, Dublin, Birmingham, New York City, or Liverpool. It could be 1500, 1900, 2000, or 3000"". The only place that ""After Juliet"" cannot be"
"London in 1888. In a Prologue, the characters in the drama are introduced by an ‘Animal Tamer’ as if they are creatures in a travelling circus. Lulu herself is described as “the true animal, the wild, beautiful animal” and the “primal form of woman”. When the action of the play starts, Lulu has been rescued by the rich newspaper publisher Dr Schön from a life on the streets with her alleged father, the petty criminal Schigolch. Dr Schön has taken Lulu under his wing, educated her and made her his lover. Wishing however to make a more socially advantageous match"
"Margaret Fleming Margaret Fleming is an 1890 play by James A. Herne. The play is remarkable because many critics consider it to be the first ""modern"" drama, a play that focused more on the psychological complexities of its characters and on the role of social determinism the characters' lives than on dramatic or melodramatic retellings. It first ran in Lynn, Massachusetts in July 1890, but was rejected as too controversial by theater managers in New York and Boston. Two friends and financiers of Herne's rented a theater in Boston for its opening, and the play had two three-week runs, one"
"adapted version of August Strindberg´s play ""Fröken Julie (Miss Julie)"" from 1888. Gustaf Norén and the Swedish actress Shima Niavarani are playing their own fictionalized personalities; the plot is located in Brooklyn. Gustaf and Shima are working out the feministic screenplay ""Fröken Julie"", together with John Coombs, the director. The film contains an intense story of the professional and private relationship between the two actors, of feminism and of gender roles in society. Gustaf Norén Erik Gustaf David Norén (born 1 February 1981 in Borlänge) is a Swedish musician (vocals, guitar). He was one of the two frontmen of the"
"of Ibsen's play into a warfare between the two sexes. From November 1887 to April 1889, Strindberg stayed in Copenhagen. While there he had several opportunities to meet with both Georg Brandes and his brother Edvard Brandes. Georg helped him put on ""The Father"", which had its première on 14 November 1887 at the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen. It enjoyed a successful run for eleven days after which it toured the Danish provinces. Before writing ""Creditors"", Strindberg completed one of his most famous pieces, ""Miss Julie"". He wrote the play with a Parisian stage in mind, in particular the Théâtre"
"Lucie Mannheim Lucie Mannheim (30 April 1899 – 28 July 1976) was a German singer and actress. Mannheim was born in Köpenick, Berlin, where she studied drama and quickly became a popular figure appearing on stage in plays and musicals. Among other roles, she played Nora in Ibsen's ""A Doll's House"", Marie in Büchner's ""Woyzeck"", and Juliet in Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"". She also began a film career in 1923, appearing in several silent and sound films including ""Atlantik"" (1929) – the first of many versions of the story of the ill-fated RMS ""Titanic"". The composer Walter Goetze wrote his"