Word: nittering
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...difficult one, for it demands that the actor navigate Mag's hairpin turns of character with absolute authority. Mary Klug triumphs in her role, giving her character a keenly humorous sense of self-awareness. She is both charming and hateful, both pathetically helpless and maliciously cunning. Susanne Nitter as Maureen also handles the diverse nuances of her character with great ease. Alternately imperious and juvenile, she resembles nothing so much as a rebellious teenager encountering a midlife crisis. Next to these harpies, the two supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue...
...aristocratic young woman struggling to find love among family and servants, who learns the hard way that class barriers are cold, heartless walls not easily crossed. On the other side of the class wall are Miss Julie's two servants, Jean and Kristine, played by Diego Arciniagas and Susanne Nitter. Jean and Kristine innocently believe that in their love for each other they may transcend the misery of their class...
...similarly, only through this unbearable shame does Miss Julie ironically fulfill her wish to travel down from her precarious perch in the pure and untouchable upper crust. Only Kristine truly understands the hypocrisy inherent in Julie and Jean's desires, yet she can do and say nothing. Nitter deftly underplays Kristine, suggesting that beneath Kristine's humble demeanor burns the rage and frustration of a woman trapped within a servile, unfair world...
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