Miss Julie

by August Strindberg (1888).

South African Adaptations

In 1985 Bobby Heaney directed a controversial production of the play, in which the servant John is black and Miss Julie a white landowner's daughter. It starred the leading Black actor of the time, John Kani, and Sandra Prinsloo, the leading White Afrikaans actress of her generation, and Natie Rulia. The play premiered in 1985 at Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, then went on to the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, where it met with huge opposition and controversy, including a staged walkout by right-wing Afrikaners on the opening night, and threats made against the actress. A TV film version of this production was made in 1986, with the same cast and directed by Bobby Heaneyand Finnish director, Mikael Wahlforss. It was filmed in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and released on the 29 May 1986 in Finland.

In 2012 a new multiracial version was done by ***

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