Tuesday 30 JUNE 2009
Our first Floral Floosies outing was to see “Daisy Pulls It Off” at The Hamble Memorial Hall, performed by The Hamble Players.
It is always a treat to see anything performed by The Hamble Players, an amateur dramatic group who have won several awards. The venue is just the right size and makes for an intimate atmosphere. The acting is great, the lighting and sound well thought out and the props and scenery minimal, but with enough for your imagination to fill in the gaps.
Daisy Pulls It Off was a triumph. It is a tongue-in-cheek look at the world of the girls' private school...
Teenager Daisy Meredith has been brought up by her mother (a former Opera singer who has had to revert to teaching singing lessons to pay the rent). Daisy wins a scholarship to boarding school but then has to deal with snobbery and cattiness from her new schoolmates, Sybil and Maude, who do their worst to get her expelled from school.
Daisy makes friends with class-mate and budding poet Trixie Martin and also with the head girl, Clare Beaumont, whose family owns the school buildings and grounds. However, they desperately need the family treasure, hidden somewhere in Grangewood School. Can she and Trixie find the treasure? Will Daisy be expelled? And why does Mr Thompson the gardener whistle the same tune all the time?
Wonderfully done. The lead role was played marvellously by Leanne Wilkins (how did she remember all those words?) and the school bully Sybil was played by Jane Cooke who really hammed it up and made the part her own. A most enjoyable evening.
Juniper Berry June
Branch Manager
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