It's that time again! Time to purchase $20 Hiptix tickets and see a play, snack, drink and enjoy free issues of Time Out New York.
This time it was After Miss Julie. The play stars Sienna Miller, famous for being blond and dating a lot of people. The only thing I ever really liked her in was Casanova, where she played opposite Heath Ledger as a rebellious feminist tomboy out of place in a formal, male dominated world. The good news: she has tons of stage presence, just absolutely draws your eye. She's a stunner! Bad news: she acted stiffly and self consciously and kept making me remember that she was Sienna Miller instead of Miss Julie.
The play is about a one night stand between a servant and his mistress and the tension over class and gender that such line crossing generates. It was not particularly resonant in this day and age, although there was a lot of discourse about WWII that could be applied to our culture now- about what it means to go to war, to be around death and blood, to try and come home and go back to all those social norms that no longer make sense. After Miss Julie was dramatic but not moving; there was no one character to feel through and not enough distance to be meta.
But all this intellectual furor was appropriately quelled by free selections of cheese, bread and veggies and glasses of beer or proseco, not to mention Halloween candy! The American Airlines theater has a nice penthouse lobby with an outdoor deck. Next play is Carrie Fisher's one woman show Wishful Drinking later this month. When in New York!
