La señorita Julia

Pilar Valenciano directs this new reading of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, which moves the drama to the Night of Saint John and its rituals of fire, water and renewal.

The production takes the Night of Saint John as its starting point to reread August Strindberg's classic from a contemporary perspective. Pilar Valenciano directs and adapts the piece, and Marta Guerras is among the cast. The production is by La Raíz Producciones.

The story follows Julia, a young noblewoman from a Swedish estate, who seeks amusement at the servants' party and seduces a footman. After that encounter, her social position is called into question, and the confrontation between the characters is presented as a rite of passage: a clash of ideas, desires and contradictions that challenges the inherited social and personal structures.

The staging draws on the symbolism of that night, with fire as a purifying element and water as a sign of renewal, and captures the Dionysian spirit of the original play. The approximate running time is 1 hour and 20 minutes. It is a contemporary theatre show performed at the Teatro Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa, in Madrid.