August Strindberg's play Miss Julie is here presented in Frank McGuinness's coruscating translation; also included in McGuinness's translation of Strindberg's one act play The Stronger.
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and now lives
in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. His
plays include: The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1982),
Baglady (Abbey, 1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards
the Somme (Abbey, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986), Innocence
(Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986), Carthaginians (Abbey, 1988;
Hampstead, 1989), Mary and Lizzie (RSC, 1989), The Bread Man (Gate,
1991), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Hampstead, West End and
Broadway, 1992), The Bird Sanctuary (Abbey, 1994), Mutabilitie (NT,
1997), Dolly West's Kitchen (Abbey, 1999; Old Vic, 2000), Gates of
Gold (Gate, 2002), Speaking Like Magpies (Swan, Stratford, 2005),
There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida, London, 2007), Greta Garbo Came
to Donegal (Tricycle Theatre, London, 2010), The Match Box
(Liverpool Playhouse Studio, 2012), The Hanging Gardens (Abbey,
2013), Donegal (Abbey, 2016), The Visiting Hour (Gate, 2021) and
Dinner With Groucho (The Civic, Belfast, 2022).
His widely performed versions include Ibsen's Rosmersholm (1987),
Peer Gynt (1988), Hedda Gabler (1994), A Doll's House (1997), The
Lady from the Sea (2008) and John Gabriel Borkman (2010); Chekhov's
Three Sisters (1990) and Uncle Vanya (1995); Lorca's Yerma (1987);
Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1991) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle
(1997); Sophocles' Electra (1998) and Oedipus (2008); Strindberg's
Miss Julie (2000); Euripides' Hecuba (2004) and Helen (2009);
Racine's Phaedra (2006); Tirso de Molina's Damned by Despair
(2012); James Joyce's The Dead (2013); and Molière's Tartuffe
(2023).
August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish dramatist, novelist,
poet and essayist. His plays include The Father (1887), Miss Julie
(1888), Creditors (1889), The Stronger (1890), Easter (1900), The
Dance of Death (1900), A Dream Play (1902) and The Ghost Sonata
(1907).
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