In this modern-day production of Strindberg’s naturalistic text, the timeless themes of love, lust and desire are set against a backdrop of social conventions worth challenging. The tragedy of the three main protagonists unfolds under the watchful eye of a chorus.

The piece is framed by striking, contemporary staging, breathing new life into a classic play.

Tragedy or drama? Trivial event or autobiographical narrative? Naturalism or symbolism? Social criticism or psychoanalytical view? Class struggle or battle of genders? Miss Julie unquestionably encompasses all of these themes that make the great dramatic poems inexhaustible and fascinating. The play marks, in any case, a revolution in late 19th century writing: it opens the door to a reflection on modern theatre, built at the crossroads of various influences.

It is this richness that interested Frédéric Fisbach, who is captivated by this "classic" text that transcends all time periods. By putting the play into a very contemporary set design, he endeavours to bring it closer to us and in this way help us to enter the intimacy of the characters. Well beyond the notions of social relations, this Miss Julie questions us on current relationships between men and women, relationships that are focused on desire and its completion, asking the question of whether love offers the possibility to change radically.

From this uncertainty of the love affair, a malaise emerges, between incomprehension and frustrations, that is difficult to define but strongly felt. It is during Saint John's night, that sleepless night, a pagan feast during which music and drinking release people from the most constraining fetters, that Strindberg chose to orchestrate his tragedy, constantly postponed but foreshadowed.

Because the desire of the idealistic Julie for Jean, her father's ambitious servant, is inescapably doomed to a dismal outcome. For this creation, Frédéric Fisbach has brought together three actors he never worked with: Juliette Binoche, who wished to return to the theatre, Nicolas Bouchaud and Bénédicte Cerutti.

To approach this intimate drama in a different way, Frédéric Fisbach invites a group of amateurs on stage to compose a chorus under whose watchful gaze the three protagonists will inexorably destroy each other. During these few hours when "the wind blows and the lightning strikes," when Julie and Jean challenge the order of things and dream of leaving for another place which they hope, despite everything, will offer them a future...