PLAY READINGS & AUDITIONS

Playhouse Company: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Wednesday 26 Feb 2025

Play Reading: Monday 28th April 2025, 7:30pm

Green Room Bar, Cheltenham Playhouse

Auditions (on arrival come to the Green Room Bar):

Wed 7th May 2025 - Pittville Room, 7pm-9:30pm
Thu 8th May 2025 - Pittville Room, 7:30pm-10pm
Sun 11th May 2025 - Montpellier Room, 2:30pm-5pm

Rehearsals will start at the beginning of June 2025

Performance Dates at Cheltenham Playhouse Main Stage:

Wednesday 1st to Saturday 4th October 2025, 7:30pm, + Matinée on Sat 4th October, 2pm

Roles (mainly Edinburgh/light Scottish)

The Teachers:

Miss Jean Brodie (late 30s/40s)

Miss Mackay, the Head Mistress (40s/50s/60s)

Mr Teddy Lloyd, the Art Teacher (late 30s/40s) - could have an English accent

Mr Gordon Lowther, the Music Teacher (late 30s/40s/50s)

The Schoolgirls:

The Brodie Set: Sandy, Mary, Monica, Jenny (late teens/early 20s) - Sandy could have an English accent

Clara and 3 other Schoolgirls (late teens/early 20s)

Ages are for guidance only - don't worry if you are older/younger

Miss Brodie is a formidable figure who moulds young minds to her form. And what is more, she is so intensely interesting, that the girls admire her above all else. But Miss Brodie is not honest. She prevaricates, and then tells the girls to do as she tells them, not as she does herself. She is having an affair with the Music Teacher, and has had one with the Art Teacher.

Jean Brodie has her favourite - her 'Brodie Set' - the beautiful Jenny, the timid Mary, the dramatic Monica, and the sharp-witted and ever-watchful Sandy. At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in the conservative and respectable Edinburgh of the 1930s, we follow the girls' journey under the influence of the charismatic Miss Brodie, from their adoration to their disillusionment.

Carol Meredith

DIRECTOR

The Playhouse Company is an amateur company based at the Cheltenham Playhouse.

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