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After Miss Julie” by Patrick Marber, 1995, After Strindberg Educational material: “After Miss Julie” By Patrick Marber, 1995, after Strindberg Lektor: Birgitte Holm Halkjær Birkerød Gymnasium, HF og IB That-theatre Company spring 2017 A study of the original “Miss Julie” Task: In pairs. Search google and find out who wrote “Miss Julie, 1888”? Task: In pairs. Search google and find out what did the original “Miss Julie” deal with? Write down a brief summary of the original “Miss Julie”. 1 Task: In pairs. Translate into Danish: “Strindberg´s work in the theatre was largely written in revolt against contemporary social conventions and was startlingly modern and radical for the time”. Try and apply that statement to Strindberg´s play “Miss Julie”. A study of the author of “After Miss Julie” Task: In pairs. Comment on the title of the play that you are about to read and work with in class. Why do you think the play is called “After Miss Julie”? While reading the play find out if there is any direct reference to the title? Task: In pairs, translate the following into Danish: “Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter. After working for a few years as a stand-up comedian, Marber was a writer and cast member on radio shows…”. In pairs, 2 search google and find out more about Marber and his life and works. Next, write a little more about Patrick. A study of Strindberg versus Marber Task: In pairs. Compare and contrast the play “Miss Julie” with the play “After Miss Julie”. How is the “free-spirit” of Strindberg´s play, “Miss Julie”, presented in Marber´s play “After Miss Julie” ? Any similarities/ differences between Strindberg´s play and Marber´s play? Both when it comes to content and form. Take your starting point in the lines about Strindberg´s “Miss Julie”. “Miss Julie depicts a fierce battle between a man and a woman, a struggle for power and dominance enacted through a cruel and compulsive game of seduction and repulsion. … By turns seductive and bullying, savage and tender..” Task: In pairs. From Strindberg to Marber. Discuss. How much have women´s lives changed since Strindberg wrote 3 “Miss Julie”? Do you think that Marber´s play is still relevant for students to read anno 2017 – why/why not? A closer study of reviews: Task: In pairs, study the following three excerpts from different reviews. Compare and contrast the reviews when it comes to style and language. Discuss which one do you like the most – and why? Finally, go to Krudttønden and write your own review of “After Miss Julie” by That- Theatre Company. 1. “In all its complexity, the story Marber has shaped is enthralling. He´s based it on August Strindberg´s 1888 play, “Miss Julie”, about the daughter of a count, who, bored and stifled by convention, gets involved with her father´s servant. Instead of the late 1800s at a country estate in Sweden, the action in Marber´s play occurs in 4 1945 at a manor outside London, the night of the massive Labor Party victory that won 60 percent of the seats in Parliament and broke the power of the conservatives. And while the lord, ironically a Labour peer, is in London at the big celebration, Julie has joined the workers of the estate to toast victory in dance and drink …” 2. “England. July 1945. The Labour Party´s landslide election trump. Victory in the class struggle. Celebrations in every street. Miss Julie descends into the servants´ kitchen of her father´s country mansion in search of the chauffeur John. Over one long midsummer´s night, Miss Julie´s world is turned head over heels” 3. “After Miss Julie strikes me as a deeply pessimistic work. It also makes for a terrific evening in the theatre. Like the original, Marber´s ingenious update is at once horrible and hypnotic…. what Marber captures precisely is the way the heroine´s hysteria is heightened by the night´s tumultuous events. Boyishly reared by an emancipated mother and a suicidal father, Miss Julie is the victim of heredity, environment and her own anachronistic position as an outsider in a new socialist England. It is the sense of Miss Julie as a lost soul that is beautifully caught. The real virtue of Marber´s version is that it refreshes an old play 5 and reminds us that it is as much about psychological disintegration as the never-ending sex and class wars”. A study of the historical context of the play, England 1945 / postwar Britain: Task: In pairs. Search google and find out what did England celebrate on May 8, 1945? Task: In pairs. How is the situation of England depicted in the play “After Miss Julie”? Task: In pairs. You are a journalist. Your job is to write an article to a Magazine about postwar Britain. In your article you must include the following facts about the period. The title of your article is all up to you. Length of your article around 200 words: 6 - The war in Europe finished in May 1945 - The Aristocracy and its hold of power were challenged - Britain and most of Europe had just come through the horror of 2 World Wars - The relationship the working classes had with their so- called “masters” was challenged - People wanted and would get a National health Service, free education, control over their railways, roads, mining and steal - Great times lay in store A study of England´s social structure at the end of the 20 th century Task: In pairs. Search google and find out about the social structure in England at the end of the 20 the century. For more information watch for instance the British documentary, “Manor House – Classes and Cultures” by David Cannadine. 7 Task: In pairs. Discuss. How is the situation of England´s social structure depicted in the play “After Miss Julie”? Give reference to the text. A study of a summary, “After Miss Julie” Task: Read the following summary of “After Miss Julie”. While reading, correct any grammatical mistakes that you notice. Next, write your own and improved version of the summary. Finally, in pairs discuss the kind of mistakes that have been made. Are these typical mistakes made by students? “Set in 1945 in an english countryhouse on the eve of the labour Partys landslide victory at the end of the second world war, this compelling and erotically psychological thriller is inspired by August Strindbergs once universal banned masterpiece. During the anticipation of election victory celebrations, Julie, the beautiful daughter of the labour peer which owns the house wander into the servants kitchen. As she flirt with her fathers handsome chauffeur, indifferent to the presence of his fiancée Christine, what 8 begin as game playing ignities into passion with devastating consequences”. A study of adjectives: Task: In pairs. Read the following section about “After Miss Julie”. While reading underline all the adjectives that you can find in the section. Next, discuss what do the adjectives do to the text? Finally, rewrite the section, so that it becomes less formal in tone and style of writing. “After Miss Julie depicts a struggle for power and dominance enacted through a cruel and compulsive game of seduction and repulsion. In an atmosphere of wild revelry and loosened social constraints, Miss Julie and John dance and drink, charm and manipulate each other. She, all hauteur, longing for abasement, he, polished, ambitious, but coarse – both united in mutual loathing and attraction. By turns seductive and bullying, savage and 9 tender, their intimacy leads to desperate plans and vision of a life together – unsure if the morning brings hope or hopelessness, Julie and John find their escape in a final act as sublime and horrific as anything in a Greek tragedy. A night of wild celebration is the backdrop of this story”. A study of the setting of the play: Task: When and where does the action in “After Miss Julie” take place? Compare and contrast with the original “Miss Julie”. A study of the composition/ structure of the play: Task: In pairs. Trace the development of the plot. How does the play start, how does it develop and how does it end. 10 Task: Composition/climax of the play. The climax of the play “After Miss Julie” is not easily recognizable. In order to determine the moment of the climax, we, as readers and as an audience, must try to identify the central conflict in the play. What do you think is the central focus of the play? Very often the climax in a play deals with a resolution regarding a relationship. In pairs, discuss: When does the climax/ the turning point in “After Miss Julie” occur? Task: The ending of the play. Discuss, in pairs. Would you say that John´s and Julie´s “conflict” is resolved at the play´s ending – why/why not? Take your starting point in the final lines of the play. Next, discuss were you satisfied with the ending of the play – why/why not? What happens at the end of the play? What is Julie trying to do – and why? Finally, write a new ending (your ending) to the play “After Miss Julie”. John: Here´s the broom He whispers in her ear She turns to him, holding the razor, she nods. They kiss briefly, tenderly As they slowly part the bell rings, once, loud He starts, she holds him 11 Julie: it´s only a bell. Pray for me … John: I don´t believe in God Julie: But pray for me The bell rings again, twice It´s just a bell, my darling angel … John: It´s not just a bell.
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