A punchy new one-hour adaptation of Little Miss Julie is set to give Adelaide audiences a charged and unforgettable experience in a revamped classic.

James Harvy’s provocative and electric interpretation of August Strindberg’s visceral and enduring masterpiece, Little Miss Julie is playing for a limited season at Star Theatres.

Showcasing the full gamut of human experience, Miss Julie promises a production rich with symbolism and a deep understanding of what it means to be alive.

Harvy relocates the action from a Swedish country estate to a Gilded Age New York City mansion on the eve of Independence Day, foregrounding Strindberg’s exploration of the struggle for personal liberty.

As a psychology graduate and an acting graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, with screen credits including The Doctor Blake Mysteries (ABC TV), Neighbours (Network 10), and Territory (NePlix). Harvy was first exposed to Strindberg’s work when he studied Patrick Marber’s acclaimed version, After Miss Julie, while at drama school.

The rawness of the writing stayed with him, eventually leading to the impulse to write his own take on the original.

Little Miss Julie unfolds over one night in the household’s basement kitchen, where, in her father’s absence, an unruly young heiress seizes the chance to defy the social order and plunge the servants’ world (and her own) into chaos.

A potent cocktail of class, power, love, lust, sex, death, and obsession, Little Miss Julie marks the first major work under Harvy’s new theatrical vehicle, Sturm Theatre Company, taking its name from the 18th-century German proto-Romantic movement Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”)—a nod to the formative years Harvy spent immersed in Europe’s theatre scene performing Shakespeare and touring Germany as part of a murder mystery ensemble.

LITTLE MISS JULIE — SEASON DETAILS
Fri 6 March – Sunday 15 March
Venue: Star Theatres, Theatre Two
Address: 145 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Hilton
Tickets HERE