For the first time, South African director James Nobo, artistic director of the Joburg Theatre, Roodepoort Theatre and Soweto Theatre, is working at the Theater of Nations. Nobo’s work has received numerous awards. His creative style is complex, but at the same time fascinating productions designed for a sophisticated theatrical audience. For your first in For the play, the director chose the tragic story of the relationship between a footman and the daughter of an aristocrat — «Miss Julie». This is the work of the Swedish writer August Strindberg, one of the founders of the new drama.
In the classical interpretation, «Miss Julie» is a play for three, but Nobo introduces six dancers into the performance, who, in the manner of the ancient Greek choir, are mute witnesses and invisible judges of everything that happens on this mystical night of Ivan Kupala. It was important for the director to have such a collective hero, because no matter who you are in this life, at least a couple of eyes are always watching you from the outside. A modern viewer living in the age of social media is especially familiar with this feeling of social voyeurism.
