DRAMA
Daisy Pulls It Off
Senior School Play has never played) and above all, can she
find the missing Beaumont treasure and
thereby save the school?
The Senior School play, based on
Daisy Pulls It Off , was a rollicking 1¾
hour romp in which one hilarious scene
followed another, gathering momentum
for a wild ending of treasure-hunting,
Charleston dancing, triumph and
balloons. Golly!
NOVEMBER 2018
As Star trek might say: ‘it’s Daisy, Jim…
but not as we know it.’.
Welcome to 1927, where snobbish girls’
school Grangewood admits a working
class girl, Daisy Meredith, into their
ranks. Can she win over her enemies?
Can she help the school win the national
hockey tournament (a game which she
Following the brutality of last year’s
Animal Farm with a high energy comedy
was a great call by the Drama Dept.
whose superb work deserves continues
to win accolades. Once again, director
Alan Heaven has taken a script the
audience think they know and turned
it upside down. There’s not much left
of the original Daisy in this one! It’s
tighter, faster and funnier than the
original and incorporates a whole new
world of incompetent boy scouts (who
just happen to be champion hockey
players) who were just wonderful.
Stand up and take a bow Oliver Spink,
Henry Hudson, Dylan McLane, Tom
Gledden, Josh Thornton and the most
useless and lovable of them all, Tom
Brown as Mole. Mole’s ‘strong hands’
so admired by the sensational Fiona
Tilsed as Trixie never failed to raise a
laugh.
The scout leader was played by
Hannah East who stole the show with
her Ukrainian accent and missing
spectacles. Like Trixie she brought
comic timing and detail to her role.
At Speech Day she was awarded the
Vergette Cup for Acting for her work
here.
The teachers had a wonderful scene
where they accept Ukrainian ‘milk’
into their tea, or vodka as Miss
Scoblowski knew it to be, which led to
a hilarious scene of random toasts and
frantic dancing. It was here that Ellie-
Mae Rooke really shone. She was a
marvellous headmistress, capturing
the adult range of irony and disgust
beautifully throughout the play and a
very strong lead. Grace Gallen played
the severe Miss Blackett beautifully,
complete with ruler to beat the hands
with, while deaf Miss Lillie and confused
Miss Dymplewhite (Sophie Anderson
and Sophie Jackson) brought energy
and contrast to the school scenes.
Stand out scenes included the cliff
rescue, complete with silent movie
music; a frenzied hockey match; the
meeting between the scouts and Daisy
at midnight with her line:
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THE POCKLINGTONIAN