Miss Julie (Fräulein Julie)

Love and power, self-assertion and submission, social status, gender-role expectations and their transgression: August Strindberg dissects the complexity and contradictoriness of gender relations with cool precision in Miss Julie (1889). The fact that the story of the eponymous heroine and her fatal affair with the employee Jean can be read, to an extent, as a proto-feminist text is astonishing for a playwright who otherwise made no secret of his contempt for women.

Timofej Kuljabin, currently one of Russia’s most exciting directors, who introduced himself to Berlin audiences in January 2019 with his Novosibirsk production of Three Sisters, will explore the relevance of Strindberg’s most-performed play for the present day.