Fröken Julie - Revision history

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Sources

Ivor: /* Countess Julie (FATSSA Play Festival, 1945) */

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Countess Julie (FATSSA Play Festival, 1945)

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Radio

Ivor: /* Countess Julie (FATSSA Play Festival, 1945) */

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Countess Julie (FATSSA Play Festival, 1945)

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Mies Julie (Yaël Farber, 2012)

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Mies Julie (Yaël Farber, 2012)

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Adaptations

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Countess Julie (FATSSA Play Festival, 1945)

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Miss Julie (Baxter Theatre and Market Theatre, 1985)

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Mies Julie (Yaël Farber, 2012)

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		+	[[Radio Week]], November 23, 1945.

	''[[The Sunday Star]]'', 11 Oct 1987.		''[[The Sunday Star]]'', 11 Oct 1987.

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 Put on by the [[Natal University College]] at the 1945 [[FATSSA]] play festival with the title '''''[[Countess Julie]]'''''. With [[Walter Martin]] as Jean, the play won the Festival Award. [[Walter Martin|Martin]], for best individual performance, won the [[Breytenbach Cup]]. The production also featured [[Norah Southwood]] and [[Millicent Posselt]].
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 November 27, 1945: A radio version of [[Countess Julie]] was produced by the [[Natal University College Dramatic Society]] and broadcast by the SABC's station [[Durban and Pietermartizburg "A" (English)]].

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 Put on by the [[Natal University College]] at the 1945 [[FATSSA]] play festival with the title '''''[[Countess Julie]]'''''. With [[Walter Martin]] as Jean, the play won the Festival Award. [[Walter Martin|Martin]], for best individual performance, won the [[Breytenbach Cup]]. The production also featured [[Norah Southwood]] and [[Millicent Posselt]].
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+'''Radio'''''Italic text''
+November 27, 1945: A radio version of [[Countess Julie]] was produced by the [[Natal University College Dramatic Society]] and broadcast by the SABC's station [[Durban and Pietermartizburg "A" (English)]].
 ==''[[Miss Julie]]'' ([[National Youth Theatre]], 1959-1960)==

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	Put on by the [[Natal University College]] at the 1945 [[FATSSA]] play festival with the title '''''[[Countess Julie]]'''''. With [[Walter Martin]] as Jean, the play won the Festival Award. [[Walter Martin\|Martin]], for best individual performance, won the [[Breytenbach Cup]]. The production also featured [[Norah Southwood]] and [[Millicent Posselt]].		Put on by the [[Natal University College]] at the 1945 [[FATSSA]] play festival with the title '''''[[Countess Julie]]'''''. With [[Walter Martin]] as Jean, the play won the Festival Award. [[Walter Martin\|Martin]], for best individual performance, won the [[Breytenbach Cup]]. The production also featured [[Norah Southwood]] and [[Millicent Posselt]].
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		+	November 27, 1945: A radio version of [[Countess Julie]] was produced by the [[Natal University College Dramatic Society]] and broadcast by .

	==''[[Miss Julie]]'' ([[National Youth Theatre]], 1959-1960)==		==''[[Miss Julie]]'' ([[National Youth Theatre]], 1959-1960)==

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 Presented by The [[Baxter Theatre Centre]] in association with the [[South African State Theatre]] over the period 2012-2013, it was directed by [[Yaël Farber]] with [[Thoko Ntshinga]] as Christine, [[Bongile Mantsai]] as John, and [[Hilda Cronjé]] as Mies Julie. Music composed by [[Daniel Pencer]] and [[Matthew Pencer]], music performed by: [[Brydon Bolton]], [[Mark Fransman]] and  [[Tandiwe Nofirst Lungisa]] (singer and musician). Set and lighting design by [[Patrick Curtis]], original lighting design by [[Paul Abrams]] and costumes by [[Birrie le Roux]].
-This production played to great acclaim at numerous venues, including the [[Baxter Theatre]], the Edinburgh Assembly Fringe Festival in Scotland, the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria, St Ann's Warehouse in New York and the [[Market Theatre]]. It has garnered numerous awards in the same period.
+This production played to great acclaim at numerous venues, including nationally and internationally:
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 == ''[[Mies Julie]]'' ([[Yaël Farber]], 2012) ==
-Another localized adaptation of Strindberg's play, this time written by [[Yaël Farber]] and subtitled: ''Restitutions of Body and Soil Since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927'' The text was published by Oberon Publishers in
+Another localized adaptation of Strindberg's play, this time written by [[Yaël Farber]] and subtitled: ''Restitutions of Body and Soil Since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927'' The text was published by Oberon Publishers in 2011.
 Presented by The [[Baxter Theatre Centre]] in association with the [[South African State Theatre]] over the period 2012-2013, it was directed by [[Yaël Farber]] with [[Thoko Ntshinga]] as Christine, [[Bongile Mantsai]] as John, and [[Hilda Cronjé]] as Mies Julie. Music composed by [[Daniel Pencer]] and [[Matthew Pencer]], music performed by: [[Brydon Bolton]], [[Mark Fransman]] and  [[Tandiwe Nofirst Lungisa]] (singer and musician). Set and lighting design by [[Patrick Curtis]], original lighting design by [[Paul Abrams]] and costumes by [[Birrie le Roux]].
-This production played to great acclaim at numerous venues, including the [[Baxter Theatre]], the Edinburgh Assembly Fringe Festival in Scotland, the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria, St Ann's Warehouse in New York, the [[Market Theatre]] directed: [[Yael Farber]].  Cast: [[Bongile Mantsai]] (John), [[Hilda Cronje]] (Mies Julie), [[Thoko Ntshinga]]     (Christine), [[Thandiwe Nofirst Lungisa]] in Johannesburg with the 2012 [[National Arts Festival]] and the Riverside Studios in London between July 2012 and July 2013.  It has garnered numerous awards in the same period.
+This production played to great acclaim at numerous venues, including the [[Baxter Theatre]], the Edinburgh Assembly Fringe Festival in Scotland, the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria, St Ann's Warehouse in New York and the [[Market Theatre]]. It has garnered numerous awards in the same period.
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 In 1987 [[Mario Schiess]] likewise adapted the play as ''[[Julia]]'', also setting it in South Africa during the [[Apartheid]] years, casting the central characters from different race groups.
-Another, even more radical, localized South African adaptation of Strindberg's play was written by [[Yaël Farber]] in 2011,  and subtitled: ''Restitutions of Body and Soil Since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927'' The text was published by Oberon Books in 2011.
+Another, even more radical, localized South African adaptation of Strindberg's play - called ''[[Mies Julie]]'' - was written by [[Yaël Farber]] in 2011,  and subtitled: ''Restitutions of Body and Soil Since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927'' The text was published by Oberon Books in 2011.
 = South African Productions =

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 == ''[[Countess Julie]]''  ([[FATSSA]] Play Festival, 1945) ==
-Put on by the [[Natal University College]] at the 1945 [[FATSSA]] play festival with the title ''[[Countess Julie]]''. With [[Walter Martin]] as Jean, the play won the Festival Award. [[Walter Martin|Martin]], for best individual performance, won the [[Breytenbach Cup]]. The production also featured [[Norah Southwood]] and [[Millicent Posselt]].
+Put on by the [[Natal University College]] at the 1945 [[FATSSA]] play festival with the title '''''[[Countess Julie]]'''''. With [[Walter Martin]] as Jean, the play won the Festival Award. [[Walter Martin|Martin]], for best individual performance, won the [[Breytenbach Cup]]. The production also featured [[Norah Southwood]] and [[Millicent Posselt]].
 ==''[[Miss Julie]]'' ([[National Youth Theatre]], 1959-1960)==

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 In 1985 [[Bobby Heaney]] and [[John Slemon]] staged what was to become a most controversial production of the play at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and the [[Market Theatre]], one in which the servants Jean (John) and Kirstin (Christine) are black and Miss Julie is a white landowner's daughter. Produced by [[Mavis Lilenstein]], directed by [[Bobby Heaney]], with [[John Kani]], the leading [[Black]] actor of the time  and [[Sandra Prinsloo]], the leading [[White]] [[Afrikaans]] actress of her generation, and [[Natie Rula]] (as Christine). Lighting by [[Sydney Jansen]].
-The play, approved for performance - but given a 2-16 age restriction by the [[Publications Control Board]] because of the adult content,  opened at [[Baxter Theatre]] in Cape Town on 5 February 1985 to a generally positive reception, playing to 23 February. However there were rising murmurs of discontent and protests in rightwing publications before and during the run, often from people who had not seen it. Indeed Sandra Prinslo was targeted with obscenities and death threats. The play then transferred to the [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg, where it met opened on 26 February, 1985, to huge opposition and controversy, including a staged walkout of about a third of the audience, organised by right-wing [[Afrikaners]] on the opening night, and even more responses and calls targeting the actress with obscenities and death threats.
+The play, approved for performance - but given a 2-16 age restriction by the [[Publications Control Board]] because of the adult content,  opened at [[Baxter Theatre]] in Cape Town on 5 February 1985 to a generally positive reception, playing to 23 February. However there were rising murmurs of discontent and protests in rightwing publications before and during the run, often from people who had not seen it. Apparently also one or two incidents of people walking out. Indeed [[Sandra Prinsloo]] was targeted with obscenities and death threats. The play then transferred to the [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg, where it met opened on 26 February, 1985, to huge opposition and controversy, including a staged walkout of about a third of the audience, organised by right-wing [[Afrikaners]] on the opening night, and even more responses and calls targeting the actress with obscenities and death threats.
-The same production was invited to play on the main programme of the 1985 Edinburgh Festival and did so to acclaim.
+The same production was invited to play on the main programme of the 1985 Edinburgh Festival,  opening on 26 August 1985 for a run of seven performances in the Royal Lyceum Theatre. The adaptation was generally well attended and received, though some critics were a trifle uncertain about the impact of the racial casting on the deeper lying theme of the Swedish play.
 A joint South African/Swedish TV film adaptation of this production made in 1986. Produced by [[Mavis Lilenstein]], directed by [[Bobby Heaney]] and Finnish director, Mikael Wahlforss, with music by [[Joe Davidow]]. It was filmed in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and released on the 29 May 1986 in Finland and 11 June in Sweden on ''Oy Yleisradio AB'', TV1/SVT2/Epidem.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208302/]