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Discuss “Drama teaches lessons in love”

“There is something deliciously forbidden about the interactions as well as the circumstances of this play,” Ed Iskandar said. “On a hot summer evening, a count’s daughter descends into the kitchen to quench her erotic fixation on her manservant.” Iskandar was describing the decidedly provocative After Miss Julie, a play opening at the Philip Chosky Theatre this Wednesday. Iskandar, a second-year master of fine arts candidate in the School of Drama, is directing the production.

The play was originally written by August Strindberg in 1888. In the adaptation Iskandar uses, the setting has been modernized to a post-World War II London. After Miss Julie takes place on July 26, 1945, when Britain’s Labour Party has won control of Parliament...

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