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Outline of Play
A smash hit from the West End, this hilarious, thrilling and audience-involving comedy was described by The Sunday Times as “perfectly ripping, absolutely spiffing not to mention scrummy entertainment”.
It is set in a girls’ school in 1926, where all the girls have terrific times, smashing adventures, bottle fights and midnight feasts and, of course, get into fearful scrapes. It is written in the style of schoolgirl novels of the period, a style which it sends up with great affection but to splendid comic effect.
But it is also jolly exciting. The action moves like lightning, in a theatrical way, from “dormy” to hockey pitch to san to school hall to classroom to a rocky ledge overhanging the perilous sea. It is not only a laugh a minute, but a thrill a minute show.
Daisy is a poor elementary school pupil who wins a scholarship to the exclusive Grangewood School for Young Ladies. There she makes friends with Trixie (“mad-cap poet”), excels at academic work, hockey and singing and is, of course, honourable and straight in all things. But she also encounters snobbery and deceit in the rich, conceited Sybil and school toady, Monica. This pair lie, cheat and conspire to get her expelled.
After Daisy has survived many tribulations they almost succeed. But, of course, at the last minute Daisy pulls it off and in a magnificent climax she scores the winning goal in a vital hockey match, saves her arch-enemies from certain death in a nail-biting cliff rescue scene, discovers the hidden treasure of Grangewood, thereby saving the career of Clare, the much-loved head girl, and is reunited with her long-lost father.
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