This is a slickly choreographed and beautifully lit production. The set may be simple, but during the course of the show we discover that it has a number of tricks up its sleeve, as when we see Shahida’s video messages projected on the bedroom door. This is laugh out loud funny, poignant and thought-provoking by turns, and it fully engaged my interest.

Strindberg wanted to portray flesh and blood people with all the varied and unpredictable behaviors we see in real-life. He rejected the idea that characters should be representative of just one motivation, such as ‘fidelity’ or ‘revenge’. Consequently they are multi-layered and quixotic. Patrick Marber has stayed true to the spirit of Strindberg’s intentions, and both Miss Julie and John are written as complex characters driven by many different and often contradictory motives.