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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2026 season. This season is now over.

Miss Julie, crowned with a Liberty-like diadem, stands against a horizon of canary yellow, one hand raised like a cat, her expression brimming with mischievous intent. The title, 'Miss Julie', blazes in bold black and yellow to her right.
Adelaide Fringe 2026

Little Miss Julie

In the kitchen of a Gilded Age New York City mansion, a young heiress, her father’s valet, and the household cook descend into a violent night of power, passion, and destruction in this bold new twist on Strindberg’s classic. Moved from Midsummer’s Eve in Sweden to Independence Day in New York City, our story unfolds on the Fourth of July, 1886—the year Lady Liberty spent the holiday cloaked with scaffolding—a beacon of freedom yet to be unveiled. Strindberg shocked audiences with the original—this new one-hour version harbours the same dangerous spirit, pressing against the tragedy’s core tension with every breath: freedom demands structure, order becomes its cage, and destruction waits at every door with open arms, parted lips, drenched in the sweet scent of release.

Presented by: Sturm Theatre Company

Sturm Theatre Company takes its name from Sturm und Drang (“storm and stress”), the proto-Romantic German movement that renounced rationalism in favour of passion, chaos, and the extremes of human experience. Writers such as the young Goethe and Schiller wrestled with spiritual themes, conceptualising God not as a rational clockmaker but as a force expressed through the sublime and the human struggle for freedom. In this spirit, Sturm Theatre Company is dedicated to producing work driven by courage, intensity, and provocation—theatre that kicks up the dirt and lingers long after the performance ends.
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Theatre
South Australia • World Premiere
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    It’s a roller coaster ride in which adrenalin fuelled highs come crashing down, stripping away masks and delusions in a breath-taking way. - David O’Brien, The Barefoot Review

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    Little Miss Julie asks questions of how best to apply it [tension] – before following through with the perfect execution. - Dan Linke, Upside Adelaide

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    We care about these characters ... they are played with love and subtlety. It’s a show that draws you in and keeps you thinking... - Jane Ford, The Advertiser

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Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M
Target audience: High School (15-17)
Animal Cruelty
Coarse Language: Occasional, Mild
Suicide/Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Mental Health
Sexual References: Occasional, Mild
Depicts Violence: Occasional, Mild

Presenter

Presented by: Sturm Theatre Company

Sturm Theatre Company takes its name from Sturm und Drang (“storm and stress”), the proto-Romantic German movement that renounced rationalism in favour of passion, chaos, and the extremes of human experience. Writers such as the young Goethe and Schiller wrestled with spiritual themes, conceptualising God not as a rational clockmaker but as a force expressed through the sublime and the human struggle for freedom. In this spirit, Sturm Theatre Company is dedicated to producing work driven by courage, intensity, and provocation—theatre that kicks up the dirt and lingers long after the performance ends.