After Miss Julie

Written in 1995, Patrick Marber transposes August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie to the balmy summer evening of 7 July 1945. A large country house in Yorkshire. Whilst the inhabitants and staff celebrate the post-war landslide General Election victory of Clement Attlee’s Labour over Churchill’s Conservative Party, three people below stairs conduct their own power struggle of class and sexual politics, fuelled – but simultaneously restricted – by their own desire, status and the shifting sands of the wider socio-political landscape.