The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
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#1The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Jay Presson Allen
Adapted from the Novel
By Muriel Spark
November 21 – December 13
The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m.
No performance on Thanksgiving Nov 27
Added performance on Wednesday December 10
“Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30
Call 512-478-5282
(AUSTIN, Texas) – Different Stages opens its 2014-2015 season with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Jay Presson Allen. Based on the 1961 novella by Muriel Spark, Jean Brodie is the story of an uncommonly progressive schoolteacher at an uncommonly conservative school in Scotland. The title character is a young woman who adores teaching. She is a teacher, “first, last and only,” she tells her students. And she is in her prime, she states proudly. She is not just a schoolteacher – her educational methods go far beyond the classroom. She takes her girls to museums, to the theater and to the opera. She neglects the mundane subjects like math, preferring to focus on exposing her students to beauty and art. She is proudly uncommon and equally uncouth, taping photographs of Mussolini over a poster bearing the motto, “Safety first!” She selects favorites of “her girls,” and directs her uncommon passion and energy to them, predicting what their futures will hold, frequently telling them how much she loves them.
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