Julie

Take Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen out of the equation and August Strindberg’s Miss Julie is one of the most popular classic European tragedies. The story of a landowner’s priviliged daughter caught in an unhealthy relationship with two of her dad’s servants combines the terse running time and laser-sharp focus of a Greek tragedy with a level of steaminess that, frankly, the genre tends to lack. Nine years on from the National Theatre’s Julie, new Old Vic associate director Rebecca Frecknall kicks off her time at the revered building by transferring her acclaimed production of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, the start of a formal partnership between the two institutions. And she’s bagged herself quite the star for the occasion: Milly Alcock – of Supergirl and House of the Dragon fame – will star in the title role.