Although written three decades apart in Scandinavia and America, August Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) and Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal (1928) belong to eras of society and theatre in which it was rare for a woman to be at the heart of the action. They now receive updated stagings at a time when the considerable equality achieved by feminism is offset by continuing toxicities of sexism and misogyny.
28 June 2018, The Tablet
Treadwell's Machinal and Strindberg's Miss Julie updated for the twenty-first century
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