1921. The world is changed after the Great War. Anything seems possible now. Miss Julie, heiress to a stately home, is searching for an escape. John, her servant, is dreaming of a brighter future. When a May Day party throws them together, tensions sizzle. But are the old hierarchies really over?

MISSING JULIE, Kaite O’Reilly’s play based on the August Strindberg classic MISS JULIE, has opened at Theatr Clwyd to excellent reviews. The play transposes the classic play into the 20s and gives Strindberg’s play a modern twist, reflecting on our world.

The Guardian said: “O’Reilly’s text is a lucid and lyrical exploration of the mores of the time, filled with beautiful textual images. But despite being set a century ago, Missing Julie is an utterly contemporary tragedy.”

What’s On Stage said: “it is not just the fate of its characters that is on the line but our own too. The setting for Kaite O'Reilly's version may be a Welsh stately home at the end of The Great War but its themes of privilege, power, and possibility feel pressingly familiar. It is a time of great change where, in the fizzling interactions between heiress Julie (Heledd Gwynn) and her servant John (Tim Pritchett), we find the same sense of uncertainty, opportunity, and desire that have met us in 2020 and 2021. The old hierarchies are being shaken. Taboos are being broken. But the light of liberation shines only for a moment before it risks being snuffed out.”

MISSING JULIE runs until 9th October, book your tickets here.