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Synopsis

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Directors Notes

After “Close the Coalhouse Door”, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” sounds like a girls outing. However, the most fascinating things have been known to happen in girls’ schools, especially with a woman of Brodie calibre on the staff, capable of bewitching schoolmasters, her own precocious pupils, and, even in a strange way, the headmistress.

Teddy Lloyd has Jean’s measure when he says ‘There is an army of these ladies in Edinburgh, war-bereaved Spinsters…. living on nuts and honey’ – but there is only one of these in a conservative school like Marcia Blaine, cradling the futures of her devoted girls in her prejudiced hands.

How dangerous is Miss Brodie? This is the question which every parent, child or impartial observer must answer for himself – but I hope you won’t think that the school’s journey from Edinburgh has been wasted.