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Production Details

229th Production - Daisy Pulls It Off a comedy by Denise Deegan

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Presented at Lowther Pavilion - 4 to 7 May 2005.

Directed by Stephanie Heney.

 

 

 

 


Outline of Play

A smash hit from the West End, this hilarious, thrilling and audience-involving comedy was described by The Sunday Times as “perfectly ripping, absolutely spiffing not to mention scrummy entertainment”.

It is set in a girls’ school in 1926, where all the girls have terrific times, smashing adventures, bottle fights and midnight feasts and, of course, get into fearful scrapes.  It is written in the style of schoolgirl novels of the period, a style which it sends up with great affection but to splendid comic effect.

But it is also jolly exciting.  The action moves like lightning, in a theatrical way, from “dormy” to hockey pitch to san to school hall to classroom to a rocky ledge overhanging the perilous sea.  It is not only a laugh a minute, but a thrill a minute show.

Daisy is a poor elementary school pupil who wins a scholarship to the exclusive Grangewood School for Young Ladies.  There she makes friends with Trixie (“mad-cap poet”), excels at academic work, hockey and singing and is, of course, honourable and straight in all things.  But she also encounters snobbery and deceit in the rich, conceited Sybil and school toady, Monica.  This pair lie, cheat and conspire to get her expelled.

After Daisy has survived many tribulations they almost succeed.  But, of course, at the last minute Daisy pulls it off and in a magnificent climax she scores the winning goal in a vital hockey match, saves her arch-enemies from certain death in a nail-biting cliff rescue scene, discovers the hidden treasure of Grangewood, thereby saving the career of Clare, the much-loved head girl, and is reunited with her long-lost father.
 

 

 

 

 

  Cast

 

Daisy Meredith

Lauren Winward

 

Mother

Janis Patterson

 

Monica Smithers

Katie Moore

 

Clare Beaumont

Lizzie Poskett

 

Sybil Burlington

Guilliana Nicholson

 

Alice Fitzpatrick

Grace Hobin

 

Trixie Martin

Caitlin McMillan

 

Miss Gibson (Headmistress)

Susie Beswick

 

Miss Granville

Lesley Jarvis

 

Mademoiselle

Joy Banks

 

Belinda Mathieson

Corin Heney

 

Winnie Irving

Nicola Boan

 

Dora Johnson

Anna Cross

 

Mr. Scoblowski

David Lee

 

Mr. Thompson

Jeff Redfern

 

School Pianist

John Lomax

 

Schoolgirls

Gemma Patterson, Emily Cartmell and Eleanor Heney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Stage Crew

 

Stage Manager

Chris Jones

 

Sound

Michael Ward

 

Lighting

Chris Beardmore

 

Set Design and Construction

Stephanie Heney and Alan Veale

 

Prompt

Shirley Croasdale

 

Properties

Janis Patterson and Andrea Lee

 

Costumes

Eileen Stanning