The ‘Mies Julie’ Stars, Hilda Cronje and Bongile Mantsai

NYTimes.com: Written and directed by Yael Farber, this version is set on a lonely South African estate 18 years after the election of Nelson Mandela. Julie (Ms. Cronje) is the daughter of the white farm master; John (Mr. Mantsai) is a black laborer there, and what happens between them on Freedom Day changes their lives. “There is more erotic heat generated by the play’s two central characters,” Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times, “than in any production in town.”