Title

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Authors

Jay Presson Allen
Muriel Spark

Season

1971-1972

Performance Dates

November 4, 5, 6, 7, 1971

Location

Fontbonne Theatre

Director

Don Garner

Files

Description

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a probe into the character of the fiercely independent and unorthodox Jean Brodie, teacher at Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh of the 1930's. She offers her "set" individuality, self-confidence and grace in a world that is essentially awkward. But Miss Brodie's social ideal of the creme de la creme, her religious sense of the elect, and her attempt to run the lives of her students breed antagonism. Thus she ultimately becomes a victim of her vaunted "prime". The drama forces a reexamination of circumstances long since taken for granted; a confrontation with the protagonist's terms of existence.

Document Type

Program

Publisher

Fontbonne University Archives

City

St. Louis, MO