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Come along to our play reading of our Next Production:THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
By Jay Presson Allen
Adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
Directed by Carol Meredith
Coming to the Main Stage at Cheltenham Playhouse:
Wednesday 1st to Saturday 4th OCTOBER 2025, 7.30pm
Matinée on Sat 4th OCTOBER, 2.00pm
This Play Reading will be hosted in the Green Room Bar on Monday 28th April 2025, 7.30pm.
Play Readings are a great low-pressure way to introduce and familiarise yourself with a play, its themes and characters:
In conservative and respectable Edinburgh in the 1930s, sits the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. Within that drab faculty, the unconventional and charismatic schoolteacher, Miss Jean Brodie, shines brightly.
“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.” speaks the dedicated Miss Brodie to her enraptured class of schoolgirls. She has her favourites - her ‘Brodie Set’ - which include the beautiful Jenny, the timid Mary, and the sharp-witted and ever-watchful Sandy.
As the play progresses, Brodie’s liberated behaviour and controversial views attract concerned attention from Miss Mackay, Marcia Blaine’s Head Mistress. Sandy, Brodie’s star-pupil, becomes painfully disillusioned with the woman she previously adored.
'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' is a gripping, entertaining and powerful drama of adolescence and adulthood; of manipulation and suspicion; and ultimately, of betrayal.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
47-53 Bath Rd, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, GL53 7HG Cheltenham, United Kingdom
