Fashion Rating: Sienna Miller @ "After Miss Julie" Broadway Night Opening

These were snapped last night in New York City.

After this past summer's "G.I. Joe" debacle (yes, I actually paid to watch that shit!), Sienna Miller's new Broadway play is getting killed by critics. Here's what some of the peeps are saying...

Actress Sienna Miller, who was last seen in “GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” can take solace in at least one way from the critical response to “After Miss Julie,” which opened at the American Airlines Theater on Thursday: Most of the critics thought the playwright Patrick Marber update of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” was even worse than she was.

Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal (scroll down to the last review) may have been the harshest: All that playwright Patrick Marber has done for “Miss Julie” “is tart it up with politics and vulgarize it beyond recognition.
“As for Ms. Miller, a model turned second-tier movie star, all she does is stalk around the stage striking vampy poses and looking really, really skinny. I almost felt sorry for her, but the truth is that she has no more business playing a classic stage role than I have posing for the cover of Vogue. The Roundabout Theatre Company should be ashamed of itself for asking her to do so.”

Teachout was not alone in expressing “almost” sympathy. “I was rooting for Sienna Miller,” Ben Brantley wrote in the New York Times, before commenting: “If Julie is written as clashing chords of conflicted impulses, Ms Miller plays them like a novice at a piano, plunking down each note loudly and individually. She conveys Anger, Self-Abasement, Sorrow and Fear very clearly and, on occasion, convincingly. But the segues among these feelings are never natural, let alone inevitable, so that when events take a turn for the lurid, the audience is laughing when it should be recoiling.”

Linda Winer of Newsday:
“More mysterious than either character’s motive is the reason for Patrick Marber’s adaptation - which, despite the misleading title, is not a sequel to the Strindberg but an unnecessary new version” [Source]

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