There's alot of huffing and puffing, but not much heat in After Miss Julie,Patrick Marber's interesting but static take on August Strindberg's classic play Miss Julie.
Mr Marber has reset this tale of a forbidden love and it's consequences from 19th century Sweeden to post World War 2 England on the eve of the Labour Party's victory in 1945. It is still about Miss Julie's flirtation with her father's chauffeur, and their one night of lusty passion,but passion seems totally absent in director Mark Brokaw's frantic but wrongheaded staging.
Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller work hard but don't generate the heat needed to bring this tale to life, and Marin Ireland is good as the chauffeur's intended bride.
After Miss Julie has a good idea and some decent writing,but it needs a much sexier and passionate production than it is getting here. Too bad because everyone works hard, but it is alot of sound and fury adding up to very little.
At THE AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATRE 227 WEST 42nd STREET N. Y C.
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Very interesting revue. Succinct and to the point.
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