A Perfect Night at the Theater

Every once in a great while the reviewer has to sit on his hands, as he watches a perfect performance of a perfectly written masterpiece. August Strindberg's "Miss Julie," in the hands of the Aurora Theater Company's restaging of the 1888 drama, is that play. Plotnik wishes tickets didn't cost $40 and $42, because seeing this production in the tiny confines of Berkeley's Aurora, where you are practically writhing on the stage with the performers, is what live theater should always be about. You can read the San Francisco Theater Blog review of "Miss Julie" here, but you'd better bring a fire hose to cool you off afterwards.