New Earth Theatre and Storyhouse announce UK tour of Miss Julie
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New Earth Theatre and Storyhouse have announced that the Storyhouse production of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie will head out on a UK tour next year.
The tour will open at Storyhouse in early March before visiting Southwark Playhouse and Sheffield Theatres, with future venues to be announced
Miss Julie tells the story of a British Governor in Hong Kong crashing the servant’s party downstairs, and what starts as a game turns into a fight for survival as sex, power, money and race collide on a hot night in the Pearl River Delta.
The Artistic Director of Storyhouse Alex Clifton said: “We are delighted to announce this tour, as a positive message of revival after such an exhausting year – most starkly for our freelance communities. New Earth are a brilliant team to partner with, and we’re thrilled to restage this extraordinary show with them, which we first commissioned from Amy two years ago. Its political currency has only grown; its urgency only intensified. This is a vital story, talking complex social politics – relations between Britain, China and Hong Kong – in a simple, powerful, human story.”
Artistic Director of New Earth Theatre Kumiko Mendl added “After what has been a massively difficult and challenging year for everyone in our industry it is wonderful news that New Earth Theatre will be presenting in partnership with Storyhouse, a tour of Amy Ng’s gripping and politically charged adaptation of Miss Julie.”
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