Stage to PageA Look Inside Opening Night of The Dance of Death and Mies Julie Off-BroadwayClassic Stage Company’s productions of the August Strindberg works play in rep, directed by Victoria Clark and Shariffa Ali, respectively.
By
Marc J. Franklin
February 13, 2019
Classic Stage Company celebrated the opening night of The Dance of Death and Mies Julie Off-Broadway February 10. The repertory staging of August Strindberg’s plays are scheduled to run through March 10.
Tony winner Victoria Clark directs The Dance of Death in a new version by Conor McPherson, while Shariffa Ali directs Mies Julie, Yaël Farber’s South Africa-set, contemporary adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie.
The Dance of Death features Cassie Beck, Richard Topol, and Christopher Innvar; Mies Julie features Elise Kibler, James Udom, Patrice Johnson Chevannes, and Vinie Burrows.
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Photos: A Look Inside Opening Night of The Dance of Death and Mies Julie Off-Broadway
Surrounded by period accurate 19th-century holiday decorations lit via candlelight, the 70-minute production is based on Dickens' own script of the classic.