Miss Julie

It is opening night and opening night is always filled with energy and anticipation for actors. Now is time for everyone who has been involved to finally present what they have worked on for so long. I now what it feels like on opening night, in your costume and ready to go; the nervousness but its more of a jittery, excited nervous because this is what we have prepared for. It is the time to show off what you do, what actors do.
Miss Julie is wonderfully, passionate play by August Strindberg. Seeing as I have studied this play before I was so excited to be able to go see it. Every director has their own interpretation of every script and one of the most exciting parts of the theatre is watching in how the director and the actors make a story that has been put on over and over new again. The play only has a cast list of three: Miss Julie, Jean and Christine. This is extremely exciting for the actors to be involved in a play like this but also puts the pressure on for them to keep the stakes up all the time. The opening scene takes place on a midsummer night, Miss Julie and the servants of her household are enjoying themselves with food, drink and dancing. This first thing that happens before the three main characters come out is a group of people dressed in black enter the stage and begin to sing and dance around the table, then they all take their place in a chair onstage, and then the story begins. This is something I haven't seen or expected. Throughout the whole play the chorus would sing and sit and watch as the story unfolds. They are the servants, the people of the household and they surround the stage and the actors to extenuate the pressure and the trapped feelings Miss Julie and Jean feel. The walls are closing in and they are lost in knowing what to do or how to escape when everyone is around them.

Another play to see today... The Tempest!

Jessie