Roundabout Theatre Company presents the American-premiere production. Sienna Miller ("Alfie," "Casanova," "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra") plays Miss Julie, Jonny Lee Miller (TV's "Eli Stone") is driver/valet John, and Ireland — the recent star of Broadway's Reasons to be Pretty — is John's love interest Christine. Mark Brokaw directs.

After Miss Julie began previews on Sept. 18 and opened officially on Oct. 22. When the limited engagement ends, it will have played 40 preview performances and 53 regular performances.

According to Roundabout, "After Miss Julie transposes August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945."

Roundabout produced the play in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions.

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The one-act play, Miss Julie, is an early example of naturalism and is required reading for most beginning theatre students. Set in Norway, it concerns Julie, the daughter of a count, who has an affair with her father's valet. Their roles are altered by their sexual act, and plans are made for the future, yet they continue to struggle with their own passions and the expectations of those around them — with tragic results. The small-cast Swedish language play was thought to have its first Broadway performance in 1913. Its first performance was in 1889, the year after it was written.

After Miss Julie was first staged in 2003 at London's Donmar Warehouse. Marber, known for the play (and film) Closer, told Playbill magazine that his version is "much more a love story" and that Strindberg's strikes him as more a "battle of the sexes.... Mine is much more specific and possibly smaller and less elemental and, I think, in its way truer."