Although I like theater, I'd never see any Strindberg before "Miss Julie," and almost all I knew was that he was one of Otto Weininger's biggest fans. As you'd expect from this, Strindberg is indeed whack, especially about women. Notwithstanding class and other constraints in 19th century Sweden, "Miss Julie" is compelling not because of any social realism but for its searing claustrophobia and barely suppressed hysteria. Saffron Burrows is stunningly, inhumanly beautiful.
Review of Miss Julie
