The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
An inspirational school-teacher in Edinburgh has her own methods of teaching, much of which relies on "taking a child in her impressionable years and making her mine for ever." Full of ego and pep, she slants the teaching of her little team of "creme-de-la-creme gels" (she refers to the others scornfully as the corps de ballet) towards Art, Truth and Beauty in her own fascinating and selfish way, neglecting such things as fairness, spelling and the nine-times tables.
The head-mistress, is on to her suspected immorality with two of the teachers but needs proof. Careless of the feelings of the growing girls as they turn towards womanhood, she goes too far.
Performances from 11th to 16th January 2010