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| Mary Alice, Albert Hall. |
“MISS JULIE” and “THE
DEATH OF LORD CHATTERLY” [Dramatic Revival] D: Henry Pillsbury; S: Holmes Easley;
C: Carol M. Gersten; L: Barry Arnold; M: Philip Rosenberg; P: Roundabout
Theatre Company; T: Roundabout Theatre (OB); 7/31/73-8/12/73 (16)
“Miss Julie” A: August Strindberg; AD: Henry Pillsbury; “The
Death of Lord Chatterly: A: Christopher Frank; TR: Henry Pillsbury
Strindberg’s classic one-acter, “Miss Julie,” about Miss
Julie (Linda Carlson), a wealthy, neurotic young woman and her illicit
relationship with an attractive male servant, Jean (Albert Hall), was here
transplanted to an American Southern setting, with Julie portrayed as a
plantation owner’s daughter, and black performers playing Christine (Mary
Alice) and Jean. The result, said Howard Thompson, was “none too convincing.”
There was now “too stark and obvious” a “psychological clash between Jean and
Julie, because of the miscegenation idea. Mary Alice’s supporting performance
was the best-played of the three. She would, of course, go on to a distinguished career.
The second piece, a short French farce, was an “amusingly bland” trifle about a butler and his mistress, whose husband is dying offstage. It starred Philip Campanella and Linda Carlson.