Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie adapts Strindberg's classic play and relocates it to the kitchen of an English country house in 1945. As the play opens, Winston Churchill's Conservative government has lost to the Labour Party and Labour’s landslide victory looks set to change the face of the British class system forever. Outside, the servants celebrate in the barn of the country house in which they are employed as servants. Can this victory mark a turning point in their fortunes, one where the working class will rise to be the new equals of their former masters? They are joined by Miss Julie, the daughter of the wealthy household, who joins in the revels. Despite the initial joy of the evening, it becomes clear that social upheaval will not come easily as those who see themselves as supporters of a new and more liberal society can still be exceptionally blind to their own prejudices. Society begins to crack open and tensions boil over as Julie engages in an night of lust, violence, desperation, and desire with John, her father’s chauffeur.
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