About The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life’
At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famously, in her prime.
Each year, Brodie selects her ‘set’. The crème de la crème of Girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women they could become. In return, she demands utter loyalty from them all.
Witty, seductive and swirling in contradictions, Brodie’s mythical ability to invent her own truths and manipulate her Girls ultimately leads her to risk everything.
In an adaptation by David Harrower, which sharpens the knives of Spark’s extraordinary work, and with a cast lead by Gayle Rankin (Glow, House of The Dragon), this visceral production looks head on at our enduring moral fascination with such a beguiling and dangerous character.
Adapted by David Harrower from the novel by Muriel Spark
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Featuring Gayle Rankin as Jean Brodie
A National Theatre of Scotland Production.
Presented in partnership with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and in association with Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Booking Dates
Lyceum Patrons - 1pm Thu 6 November*
General Sale - 1pm Wed 19 November
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*Luminaire/ Spotlight / Incandescent Patrons - 1pm Thu 6 November
Roundel Patrons and National Theatre of Scotland Friends - 1pm Wed 12 November
Arc Patrons - 1pm Thu 13 November
Footlight Patrons - 1pm Fri 14 November
Season Ticket Holders - 1pm Tue 18 November
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