Happy Valley's Flapper

Adapted from August Strindberg's Miss Julie by Michael Omoke

Kenya's colonial days, immortalized by Karen Blixen, were scandalized by 'the 'Happy Valley Set', a group of ultra-privileged aristocrats who were famed for their debauched hedonistic lifestyle, living in the "White Highlands" of British Kenya between 1920s - 1940s. Playwright Michael Omoke's Happy Valley's Flapper reimagines August Strindberg's classic Miss Julie ( 1888, Sweden ) to take cognizance of the "White Highlands" of British Kenya. The adaptation unravels the tragic, scandalous, and dubious stories surrounding the 'Happy Valley Set'. It uses Miss Julie, the play's fictitious tragic heroine character, as a portrait of Alice de Janzé, a non-fictitious American heiress who became a countess by marriage into French aristocracy before migrating to British Kenya in 1923 where she notoriously thrived as a member of the colony's 'Happy Valley Set' and tragically committed suicide in 1941. Through the years Countess Alice de Janzé had been conducting a secret affair with Happy Valley's unelected leader, Lord Erroll, who was found dead in his Buick on the morning of 28th Jan 1941 at the junction of Karen and Ngong road, Nairobi. To this date, 80 years later, nobody has ever been convicted of the murder of Lord Erroll and while the court proceedings captured world imagination, by laying bare the sexual scandals and on-goings of this small community of white settlers, Happy Valley in all it's decadence continues to act as a decoy to cover something deeper and wider...

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Actors

Countess Alice de Janzé ( Miss Julie): Pernille Johansson

Alice de Janzé Lady'maid: Rebecca Langley

Lord Erroll's butler: Michael Omoke

Director's assistant: Anna Marie

Scenography: Fredrik Von Renteln

Assistant Scenography: Ida Marie

Costume designer: Mia Fasmer

Project Managers: Hind Charafi & ZachKhadud

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Supported by

Nordic Council of Ministers

Embassy of Sweden, Copenhagen

Embassy of Norway, Copenhagen

Kenyan Embassy, Stockholm

Nordic Culture Fund