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All the World’s a Stage Theatre Company (AWS) presents the play MISS JULIE, written by August Strindberg, a new adaptation by Lacey Perrine Chu.  Starring Troy M. Apostol, Lacey Perrine Chu, and Tracy Hanayo Okubo, with collaborating director Hannah Schauer Galli.  Will open Thursday, September 15 at 8:00 pm and run September 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, and 24 (2011) at 8:00 pm at Indigo’s Opium Den, 1121 Nu'uanu Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

A condensed new version of Strindberg’s drama revolving around sexual passion and class distinctions is being reset in the outskirts of 1930s Shanghai.  Miss Julie is a portrait of a young woman’s struggle to hold onto her dignity and sanity after becoming involved in a sexual affair with one of her father’s servants.  Class and gender conflict are brought to the extreme in this sexually degrading script.  Setting the production in pre-Japanese war and Communist takeover Shanghai allowed adapter Lacey Perrine Chu to “draw on the traditional social structure of Shanghai while keeping with Strindberg’s story and themes that are relative to all of humanity.”  The two actresses, says Tracy Hanayo Okubo, “are able to embrace their cultural background and take some control of the project,” which was conceived of by the performers.

 

“With an actor conceived project, such as this,” says collaborating director, Hannah Schauer Galli, “the performers have a pronounced investment in every facet of the production.  We work in a collaborative way from start to finish.”  The project is “a fusion of a classical text with cultural investment, that is so important in Hawaii, and performed in a non-traditional space, specific to the performance,” says Troy M. Apostol.  “It is the type of production All the World’s a Stage Theatre Company is being built on,” states Galli (also AWS’s Associate Artistic Director).  On the heels of the Po’okela Award winning The Shape of Things (2010) and Closer (2011) AWS matches this new adaptation of Miss Julie with the Eastern décor of Indigo’s Opium Den.

 

This production includes adult language and situations and is not suitable for young audiences.

 

Tickets are $7.00 students and seniors, $10.00 adult.  Available at awstheatre.org and at the door as available. 

 

In keeping with All the World’s commitment to making live theatre affordable to everyone and providing an artistic alternative for people’s time, Thursday, September 22 is pay-what-you-can at the door (pre-sale tickets are regular prices).

 

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