Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miss Julie is a long one-act play revolving around a single crisis. During the festival of Midsummer Eve, when rules of social interaction are gleefully abandoned, the count's daughter Miss Julie (Patricia Goldman) flirts brazenly with her father's valet, Jean (Daniel Hurewitz), in front of Jean's fiancee, the cook Christine (Martha Lane Moore). It is not clear who is seducing whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both...
...spend an evening watching two unappealing characters engage in a verbal slugfest? As in the plays of Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee (two acknowledged Strindberg emulators), the reason is that the struggle takes on an almost metaphysical significance--provided that the actors are in fighting shape. Fortunately, both Goldman and Hurewitz can cut the mustard, and they attack their roles (and each other) with relish...
Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, says he attributes some of the "glasnost" in relations to the nations' first ladies--Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev...
...think that we're just lucky that both odd couples came along when they did and both odd couples had very odd coupled wives, who may not have gotten along, but who both had their eye on this ultimate accommodation," says Goldman...
...expert in Soviet economy says that Nancy realized her husband had fulfilled his domestic and military goals, "and now he couldn't go down in history as never having had a meeting with the Soviets." Raisa Gorbachev acted similarly, according to Goldman...