The Young Vic’s revival of After Miss Julie opened in London last night to brilliant reviews! Pictures of the opening party have been added to the gallery and you can read some of the reviews below – all have very good things to say about Natalie’s performance.
The Guardian – Like the Donmar, the Young Vic’s Maria is a space in which there is nowhere for the actors to hide, and which requires absolute truthfulness. The only lies exposed in Natalie Abrahami’s compulsively watchable revival of Patrick Marber’s take on Strindberg are the ones that the characters tell themselves. The acting is spot-on.
The Stage – Natalie Dormer does a good line in doomed, haughty young women. She played Anne Boleyn in the lavish TV show The Tudors and here raises her game to an even more acute pitch of frayed sanity as the titular lead in Patrick Marber’s take on Strindberg’s 1888 classic.
The Telegraph – On a beautiful set by Patrick Burnier so authentic-feeling you can almost smell the frying kidneys, the performances are as richly assured as their Donmar predecessors. Blessed with ravishing feline looks, Natalie Dormer is little short of sensational as the heroine bent on sex and self-destruction, a blonde bombshell whose husky-voiced commands betray long-bred arrogance and short-fused brittleness.
Evening Standard - Bew and Dormer explore the potent dynamics of this beautifully; she spins in a sentence from haughty to pitiful, whereas he, smitten for years, suddenly proves flint-hard when he realises his conquest won’t bring him the financial rewards he had hoped. Frame, meanwhile, perfectly suggests someone who isn’t quite what you’d expect, and yet not quite what you’d want. Never has the click of heels on stone stairs implied such reproach.
