Tag: Upstairs/Downstairs

“After Miss Julie”─A Fiery Collision of Class & Sex, at Main Stage West, Sebastopol

“After Miss Julie”─A Fiery Collision of Class & Sex, at Main Stage West, Sebastopol

Patrick Marber Exposes Tyranny of the One Percent by Jennifer Ann Charron “After Miss Julie” explores the clash of class and sex in a bedlam of emotions in 90 swift minutes. Patrick Marber’s redo of August Strindberg’s tragedy “Miss Julie” moves from 1888 Sweden to 1945 England, on the night of the Socialist Labour…

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“The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley” Lights Up a Revolution, at MTC, Mill Valley

“The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley” Lights Up a Revolution, at MTC, Mill Valley

Gunderson & Melcon’s Comedy Transfigures Pride & Prejudice   by Barry David Horwitz In this sequel to Pride and Prejudice, the clever playwrights take us downstairs into the vast basement kitchen underneath a great English manor. The rich people upstairs keep sneaking down the heavy duty wooden staircase to get some of the housekeeper’s…

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