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Power struggle the Butler finally wins
MISS JULIE
Pentameters
JOHN the butler delivers the first line of the play, saying that the count’s daughter Julie is mad.
She embodies sexual promiscuity and the injustice of social hierarchy.
Dependable Christine, the cook and John’s jilted fiancée – convincingly played by Natalie Haverstock – almost poses as a heroine, but her clinical approach to marriage reveals that, like Julie and John, she too has a hidden agenda.
The power struggle between the two plays itself out to the point where Julie is inevitably destroyed.
Like John, Julie’s desire for self-determination is stunted by society, but it is she who becomes the most hysterical and hateful.
Her lustful dominatrix sexuality and ‘feminist’ upbringing spells the end of male sexuality.
The Pentameters Theatre in-house production is a striking adaptation of a flawed masterpiece.
The stage set is meticulously designed. David McCaffrey as John is comfortable on stage, filling the space well.
Eva Gray, as Julie, perhaps seems a little less at ease, as does Haverstock at times, but then so might McCaffrey if he had to wear those magnificent heels.
Until Feb 17
020 7435 3648
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