Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Muriel Spark's classic story of seductive, manipulative power. Anna Francolini is Brodie, an Edinburgh schoolmistress with a difference. Her chosen set of girls, the crème de la crème are mesmerised - but she demands their undivided loyalty.
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Comments for "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
- 1. helmutmac1, dalkeith – 29 July 2009, 3:30pmReport
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no comment
- 2. FB, Edinburgh – 12 August 2009, 6:53pmReport
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The brodie girls are brilliant. However if you are going to play Jean brodie in Edinburgh you have to have a proper Edinburgh accent indeed a Morningside accent which unfortunately the lead actress fails to pull of a pity becaue this is a good production otherwise.
- 3. Bannerman Gromitllove, Guernsey – 18 August 2009, 12:06amReport
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Jean Brodie is one of my Mother's favourite plays esdpecially Maggie Smith although the more I watch this classic the more I see Pamela Frankin as the true stand-out star character; Geraldine MCEwan and Lynsey Baxter were also very good on TV;
The play is a dark star vehicle because of the overtones of fascism, art as reaction, pain and sacrifice, a lack of Atonement for Jean, and spying rivalry plus a dollop of kinky sex with a breach of trust element thrown in; As for accents they change over time and the real Jean may have had a spark of Oxbridge or Balmoral pretension about her.
I look forard to visiting the Edinburgh Assembly Hall and watching this masterpiece and compare it to the other big parts. Seductive Manipulative power is what the pattern of our lives together will work out to be, for better or for worse and this drama engages us to work together for a better more idealistic tomorrow; Jean should have been released from her delusions of identity crisis and seen her girls for the true human beings they were and loved them as her children.
I always have every confidence in Anna Francolina, an artist and actor well versed in Renaissance cultural nuances and classic traditions.
(Forgive me if I mention U think that Myself and Anna have some close mutual friends in common, so when I visit Edinburgh to see the play later this week It would be pleasant to meet up backstage or wherever at some appropriate point)
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