Park theatre, London Patrick Marber updates Strindberg's story to a country house in 1945, where upstairs-downstairs disaffection drives the drama Strindberg claimed that he wrote Miss Julie during a month of "enforced celibacy" in 1888. The resulting tragedy has a snarling, pent-up energy. Patrick Marber's 1995 version, originally written for TV, unfolds in a similarly compact 75 minutes " but turns less on sex th…
