version in 1948 Hong Kong. It followed the plot quite faithfully but added the background of post World War 2 Hong Kong adjusting to life in the British Empire and the rise of Communist China. It played on-line and at The Southwark Playhouse in London. In 2021 Michael Omoke’s adaptation “Miss Julie’s Happy Valley” had its world première in Denmark’s Folketeatret and subsequently toured to Finland where it debuted at Helsinki University of Arts. Omoke’s reworked script, set in Karen Blixen era Kenya under British rule of the first half in the last century, bases the title character ,Miss Julie, as a portrait of countess Alice de Janze, the real life American Native New Yorker married into French Aristocracy, who scandalized British Kenya’s "White Highlands" of 1920s - 1940s as the femme fatale member of Happy Valley. The expression “Happy Valley” was coined to a group of ultra-privileged Aristocrats infamous for their debauched hedonistic lifestyle in the colony ( at the expense of “natives” ) whose story was told in the 1980s film 'White Mischief'.They captured world imagination when their unelected leader, Josslyn Victor Hay 22nd Early of Erroll was found dead in his Buick the morning of 28th Jan 1941. Countess Alice de Janze, whom Lord Erroll conducted a clandestine relationship with, tragically committed suicide the same year. To date, 81 years later, the crime remains one of the century's great unresolved mystery. ‘Miss Julie Happy Valley’ unequivocally solves it once and for all. In Popular Culture In season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Sophie Lennon (played by Jane Lynch) plays the titular character in a disastrous adaptation of the play. References External links 1888 plays Plays by August Strindberg One-act plays Plays set in Sweden Plays set in the 19th century Plays adapted into operas