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Daisy Pulls It Off

A comedy by Denise Deegan
Thursday 8 November 2001 - Saturday 10 November 2001
Faringdon Junior School, 26 Gloucester Street, Faringdon SN7 7HY
Directed by John Taylor

Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets: £5. Concessions £4.
Tickets were available from Reflections, 8 Marlborough Street, Faringdon.

Nominated for The Ron Kench Shield for Drama

This comedy engagingly captures the uncomplicated innocence of Angela Brazil’s schoolgirl novels. It is about the attempts of super-achiever Daisy Meredith to submerge her poor elementary school background and find acceptance in the snobby confines of Grangewood School for Young Ladies, in the year 1927.

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Juliana Cleal and the girls

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Sarah Couzens (Daisy) & Joyce Harrison (Matron)

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Joan Lee (Trixie), Sarah Couzens (Daisy), Lois Wells (Alice), Carolyn Taylor (Clare)

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Rachel Coward (Sybil), Amanda Linstead (Monica), Joan Lee (Trixie)

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Carole Tappenden taking assembly

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Peter Webster teaching the girls Music or was it Geography?

Photographs by Ian Lee

Cast (in order of appearance):

School pianist - Karen Price
Miss Gibson - Carole Tappenden
Daisy Meredith - Sarah Couzens
Sybil Burlington - Rachel Coward
Mother - Karen Price
Belinda Mathieson - Mary Mountford-Lister
Clare Beaumont - Carolyn Taylor
Trixie Martin - Joan Lee
Monica Smithers - Amanda Linstead
Alice Fitzpatrick - Lois Wells
Miss Granville - Juliana Cleal
Mr Scoblowski - Peter Webster
Dora Johnston - Rachel Kennedy
Mademoiselle - Lucy Walden
Winnie Irving - Carol Thompson
Matron - Joyce Harrison
Mr Thompson - Nick Coard

See programme for further details.

Production No.137 (3 shows were performed over 3 days)