Aesthetics with Multiple Dimensions and Perspectives
A Multi-media Theater Brings Classic into Modern Era

Katie Mitchell, British director who has been active in the theaters across continental Europe, re-interprets Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s classic tragedy Miss Julie with her signature multi-media theater. In addition to explore the subject of gender and social class, she further re-imagines Strindberg’s classic text through the eyes of the cook, Kristin. By integrating the aesthetics of theater and film, she breaks the existing framework of the theater. On the stage, one house, one screen, one cellist, two live sound effect technicians, five cameras with a cameraman behind each of them, and even a living bird, jointly complement each other in the performance. Language is not the only channel to communicate with audiences, while multi-media, including real-time film, live music and sound effects, poetically enter into the sub-consciousness of the characters and convey the meaning behind the surface, thus taking performing arts to another level. Theater with a strong sense of film-making will bring forth completely different theatrical experience and thereby different excitement and imagination.