[NEohioPAL] tickets on sale now for THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE @ FPAC, directed by Bernadette Clemens; running July 28-31

[Fred Sternfeld]

*Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)
Fred Sternfeld, Artistic Director
presents*

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*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
**by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark

Director - Bernadette Clemens
Set Design - Rob Peck
Light Design - Ben Gantose
Sound Design - Carlton Guc
Costume Design - Craig Tucker
Dialect Coach - Katherine Burke
Dramaturg - CorLesia Smith
Stage Manager - Rebecca Adams
Assistant Director - Drew Factor
Technical Director - Keith Newman

**to be presented for four performances only
July 28 - 31, 2011

at Mayfield Village Civic Center, 6622 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village

TICKETS
can be purchased online at this link <http://fairmountcenter.tix.com/>
or by calling 440-338-3171.

Cast of Characters
JEAN BRODIE - Amy Young
MISS MACKAY - Rachel Martinelli
SANDY - Madeline Kranz
JENNY - Whitney Rich
MONICA - Hana Cheplowitz
MARY - Siobhan Carroll
TEDDY LLOYD - Ricky Vannelli
GORDON LOWTHER - Sean Cahill
MR. PERRY/MR. MCCREADY - Drew Factor
SISTER HELENA - Mandy Arent
MISS CAMPBELL/ENSEMBLE - Amiele Goldrich
CLARA/ENSEMBLE - Clare-Elizabeth Snape
ENSEMBLE - Fiona DeVito, Mia Knight, Tessa Murthy**

more information about the play, biographies of the company and FPAC's
Summer Training at this link<http://www.fredsternfeld.com/lesmizbrodiebig.htm>
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*A Letter from Bernadette Clemens,
director of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Fairmount Performing Arts
Conservatory*

*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* exposes the controversial influence of an
eccentric teacher in a private Scottish school during the 1930s, and yet it
exposes ever so much more. We meet four students whose lives are forever
changed by their teacher as she alters school curriculum in order
to enlighten and inspire. The trouble with truly inspirational and
persuasive individuals is ironically their talent itself: they will inspire
and persuade the public to take whatever actions they dictate. Jean Brodie
is drawn to the charisma and influence of dictators: the rise of Hitler's
and Mussolini's power in continental Europe during the course of the play
serves as a backdrop for the rise and fall of Miss Brodie -- in her prime.

Jean's personal and academic doctrines vacillate in a gray area between
cutting-edge and subversive; the result is complex and eventually
catastrophic for some. For others, lives change course as Miss Brodie and
her students calculate the difference between courage and folly, risk and
complacency. How does power influence motivation and action? Where is the
line of transgression between good intentions and damaging results? At what
point, if ever, does an unconventional teacher become dangerous? What is the
definition of education? This play asks all of these questions and more.

This play is a memory play, and as such we view its events through the
hindsight of a survivor. Who knows whether Miss Brodie stands in this
survivor's memory as a positive or negative influence? I am not certain that
we ever discover an answer to that question. However, as we recall the past
through the survivor's eyes, the threat of World War II looms as dark and
violent as the inner psychological battlefield of the adolescent struggle to
combat an adult world that is inherited only through the crucible of change.






-- 
Fred Sternfeld
http://www.fredsternfeld.com
216-360-0718-home
216-496-6087-cell
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