<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="4" color="#000099">Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)<br></font>Fred Sternfeld, Artistic Director<br>presents</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><br>
</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="6" color="#006600">The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</font><br></i></b><span style="font-family:'Courier New', Courier, mono"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark<br>
<br>Director - Bernadette Clemens<br>Set Design - Rob Peck<br>Light Design - Ben Gantose<br>Sound Design - Carlton Guc<br>Costume Design - Craig Tucker<br>Dialect Coach - Katherine Burke<br>Dramaturg - CorLesia Smith<br>
Stage Manager - Rebecca Adams<br>
Assistant Director - Drew Factor<br>Technical Director - Keith Newman<br><br></strong></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="4">to be presented for four performances only<br>
July 28 - 31, 2011<br></font><br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>at Mayfield Village Civic Center, 6622 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village</strong></font><br><br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><em><span>TICKETS</span><br>
can be purchased online at <a href="http://fairmountcenter.tix.com/" target="_blank">this link</a> <br>or by calling <a href="tel:440-338-3171" value="+14403383171" target="_blank">440-338-3171</a>. </em></strong></font></strong></font><br>
<br><font size="4">Cast of Characters</font><br>
JEAN BRODIE - Amy Young<br>MISS MACKAY - Rachel Martinelli<br>SANDY - Madeline Kranz<br>JENNY - Whitney Rich<br>MONICA - Hana Cheplowitz<br>MARY - Siobhan Carroll<br>TEDDY LLOYD - Ricky Vannelli<br>GORDON LOWTHER - Sean Cahill<br>
MR. PERRY/MR. MCCREADY - Drew Factor<br>SISTER HELENA - Mandy Arent<br>MISS CAMPBELL/ENSEMBLE - Amiele Goldrich<br>CLARA/ENSEMBLE - Clare-Elizabeth Snape<br>ENSEMBLE - Fiona DeVito, Mia Knight, Tessa Murthy</strong></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><br>
<br><a href="http://www.fredsternfeld.com/lesmizbrodiebig.htm" target="_blank"><font size="4">more information about the play, biographies of the company and FPAC's Summer Training at this link</font></a></strong></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><br></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>------------------------------------------------------------------</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><br></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">A Letter from Bernadette Clemens, <br>
director of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
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</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> 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.
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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.<br>
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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.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><br>-- <br>Fred Sternfeld<br><a href="http://www.fredsternfeld.com" target="_blank">http://www.fredsternfeld.com</a><br><a href="tel:216-360-0718" value="+12163600718" target="_blank">216-360-0718</a>-home<br>
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