a television adaptation, set in South Africa in the 1980s, in which the two main characters were separated by race as well as class and gender. It was based on a 1985 stage production at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Sandra Prinsloo played Julie and John Kani played Jean. In 1987, Michael Simpson directed a television version, in which Patrick Malahide played Jean and Janet McTeer played Julie. In 1991, David Ponting directed a television version, in which Sean Galuszka played Jean and Eleanor Comegys played Julie. In 1995, Patrick Marber wrote and directed After Miss Julie, in which the events of the play were transposed to an English country house on the eve of the Labour Party's landslide 1945 General Election win. The play was staged in 2003. In 1995 Braham Murray directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Amanda Donohoe as Miss Julie, Patrick O'Kane as Jean and Marie Francis as Christine. in 1995 a new version by Roger Sansom opened at the Kenneth More Theatre, London with Jay Berry and thereafter Juliet Dover as Julie, opposite Robert Flint as Jean. In 1999, Mike Figgis made a film version from a screenplay by Helen Cooper; Saffron Burrows played Julie and Peter Mullan played Jean. In 2005, it was adapted as an opera by Philippe Boesmans to a German libretto by Luc Bondy. In July 2006, a new translation by Frank McGuinness was produced at the Theatre Royal, Bath by director Rachel O'Riordan. Set in 19th-century Northern Ireland; this version relies on the tension between the Roman Catholic Irish servant class and Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry to carry Strindberg's message to an English-speaking audience. In 2009 the Roundabout Theatre Company produced After Miss Julie in New York, directed by Mark Brokaw and starring Sienna Miller, Jonny Lee Miller and Marin Ireland (as Christine). In 2009, Toronto's CanStage staged a new version titled Miss Julie: Freedom Summer. Set in Mississippi in 1964, with Julie recontextualized as the daughter of a plantation owner and John as her father's African-American chauffeur, playwright Stephen Sachs wove in themes of racial violence and miscegeny against the backdrop of the American Civil Rights Movement. This production starred Caroline Cave and Kevin Hanchard. In 2010 The Schaubühne produced a new version from the perspective of the fiancée, Kristin's perspective with live video and foley effects directed by Katie Mitchell and Leo Warner. In 2011