Marber's After Miss Julie Added to MTC '05-'06 Line-Up

By: Jun. 28, 2005
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Patrick Marber's reimagining of the August Strindberg classic, After Miss Julie, has been added to the line-up of the Manhattan Theatre Club's 2005-06 season, according to Variety. In addition, a number of other changes have been made to the theatre's schedule of new shows.

After Miss Julie premiered at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2003, although it was originally written as a BBC telefilm by Marber (Closer). A director has not yet been assigned to the MTC production, which will open at the Biltmore Theatre at a date not yet finalized. A production of Alan Ayckbourn's Third Person Singular will be directed by John Tillinger (Judgement at Nuremburg), however, instead of the previously-announced Lynne Meadows, who is the artistic director of MTC. The show will also play the Biltmore, as will David Lindsay-Abaire's (Fuddy Meers) new play Rabbit Hole in a production directed by Daniel Sullivan (Julius Caesar); the play will open in February 2006.

Miss Julie is a story of sexual conflict between the upper and lower classes as the title character becomes sexually entangled with an embittered servant.  After Miss Julie takes place in 1945 in the wake of the British Labour Party's victory, with the servant becoming the woman's chauffeur. Marber's most famous play, Closer, of course, also dealt with sexual warfare, a favorite theme of the Swedish Strindberg.

In addition to After Miss Julie, Third Person Singular and Rabbit Hole, MTC will also unveil the premiere of Ariel Dorfman's (Death and the Maiden) play The Other Side, which will be helmed by Blanka Zizka; it will play MTC's off-Broadway City Center Stage 1; another premiere will open at the smaller City Center Stage 2--Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a True Story, directed by MTC's director of artistic production Michael Bush. The previously-announced Beauty of the Father, by Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) will play Stage 2 and will be directed by Michael Greif (Rent), while a fourth City Center piece has yet to be announced. Due to "casting issues," Talley's Folly was pulled from MTC's '05-'06 season line-up; the Lanford Wilson play was to have starred Cynthia Nixon.

For more information about Manhattan Theatre Club, visit www.mtc-nyc.org.


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