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“Excellent work is put in by Samantha Jeffery … succeeds with giving real heart”
Colin MacLean for Gig City, on After Miss Julie [Lodestar Theatre]
“It’s a disorienting, visceral and immersive stream of consciousness experience, made even more powerful by this quartet of performers. They’ve mastered the script…”
Mel Priestley, on Crave [Stonemarrow Theatre]
“Stand-outs are Sam Jeffery as Macduff... The fighting, though… it’s visceral and wild”
Liz Nicholls for 12th Night, on Macbeth [The Malachites]
Gig City reviews "After Miss Julie": 5 Stars
It’s 1888, and that Swedish rascal August Strindberg has done it again. In his best naturalistic style, he’s written a play about a bored aristocratic young lady named Miss Julie, who goes searching for sexual adventure below stairs, and finds a ready accomplice with the well-travelled, cultured Jean, her father’s valet. Scandalous!
In 2003, English playwright Patrick Marber updated the tale and set it in 1945 just as Churchill’s Tory Party was defeated. It may be six decades even later but, apparently, little has changed in the effects social structures have on relationships.
The balance in this excellent Max Rubin production shifts back and forth while challenging our own perceptions of who these people are, and what they represent.
After the House Lights - A Beautiful View at the Edmonton Fringe Festival
An interview with Samantha Jeffery.
After the House Lights - Dirt City: Grime and Punishment at the Edmonton Fringe Festival
An interview with Kory Mathewson about the creation of Dirt City.