Miss Julie

American  

noun

1. a play (1888) by Strindberg.

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Example Sentences

This version of “Les Blancs,” set in a turbulent African country set on a post-colonial future, was directed for the National Theatre in 2016 by Yael Farber, whose credits include an extraordinary adaptation of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie.”

From Washington Post

The women’s charges readily fall into factions — and for many the turf war is an amusing sideshow — but when Olivia falls deeply for Miss Julie’s pointed charms, a thorny drama emerges of forbidden love curled inside a forbidding misuse of power.

From Los Angeles Times

One of the first plays that I tried, and I'm sure I was terrible, was "Miss Julie."

From Salon

It’s a formula for a certain, tried-and-true type of sexual psychodrama — the plot, in fact, is lifted intentionally from “Miss Julie,” August Strindberg’s 1888 tale of Swedish class-conscious power games.

From Washington Post

While starring in a production of “Miss Julie” in Seattle that summer, Schreck had had a fling with the actor playing Jean, the valet, and was pregnant.

From The New Yorker