Part Hedda Gabler, part Blanche DuBois, August Strindberg's Miss Julie is one of the greatest female characters ever written for the stage. The dynamic of Strindberg's play is all too well-suited to the rigid British class system, but something nearly indefinable is lost when you take the drama outside of Scandinavia; there's a certain sexiness missing, a certain hothouse delicacy. A great play is so often an extremely complex piece of machinery; remove even the smallest part of it, and the whole structure will collapse, as it does here.