Liv Ullman's film version of the August Strindberg play “Miss Julie” may be set in the 1890s, but the beautifully dark and emotionally terrifying film is filled with sentiments that sound strangely ...

August Strindberg’s much-adapted 1888 drama “Miss Julie” gets yet another screen treatment, this one from the legendary Liv Ullmann and featuring American Jessica Chastain and Irishman Colin Farrell ...

One sits transfixed but also unmoved through "After Miss Julie," the stage premiere of a Patrick Marber telefilm that first aired on the BBC in 1995. Since then, Marber has written -- in the ...

Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell square off in this adaptation of August Strindberg’s play about a 19th-century noblewoman and a valet. Chastain, who seems incapable of a bad performance, brings an ...

One hundred and twenty-seven years after August Strindberg penned his seminal naturalist tragedy Miss Julie, it’s not difficult to feel the still-resonating percussion of its assault on bourgeois ...

If there’s beauty in misery, it’s not to be found in “Miss Julie.” The daughter (Jessica Chastain) and the valet (Colin Farrell) of an Irish baron parade their woes in Liv Ullmann’s adaptation of ...

The comely mistress of the manor is hot and bothered, the homely cook is cool and collected, and the dashing valet is desired by both. In “Miss Julie,” an Irish period piece of class divides, sexual ...

Brenda Withers and Jonathan Fielding in "Miss Julie." (Courtesy John Malinowksi /Harbor Stage Company) Harbor Stage Company’s production of “Miss Julie” is like a perfectly tended hothouse garden, ...

Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton star in Liv Ullmann's film of the classic Strindberg drama, relocated to Ireland By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Aside from a brief prologue in ...

Just as Campbell Scott and the Williamstown Theater Festival did in 1996, Craig Lucas and the Berkshire Theater Festival have fallen afoul of the fierce demands of Strindberg's 1888 tragedy "Miss ...