“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.” So speaks Jean Brodie, a liberated and charismatic schoolteacher in an all-girls school in Edinburgh in the 1930s.
Eccentric, egocentric, and charming, Brodie believes that she has entered her “prime” in 1930, and this perception influences her teaching that becomes all the more idiosyncratic and personal. She ignores the standard curriculum and teaches her students about art, culture, and politics in line with her own predispositions. She concentrates her efforts on a small group of favoured girls, the “Brodie set”, which include beautiful Jenny, timid Mary MacGregor, and sharp-witted Sandy, who watches carefully as Miss Brodie instructs her charges to “do as I say, and not as I do”.
Miss Brodie manipulates and brainwashes them into following all her ideologies instead of those of the school. The play follows her journey and the consequences of her actions with the staff and on her set.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a gripping, entertaining, powerful drama of adolescence and adulthood, of betrayal and manipulation, and the powerful, lasting effect of a charismatic teacher.
Jean Brodie is played by Julia Calvert with Jasmine Farrugia as Sandy, Taryn Mamo Cefai as Jenny and Kyra Lautier as Mary MacGregor. The cast includes Sandie Von Brockdorff, Jonathan Dunn, Stefan Farrugia, Katherine Brown, Ninette Micallef and Michael Mangion