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Little Theatre Has New Production in RehearsalSchoolteachers Match WitsMarjorie Lewis, playing schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie, and Gil Bryan, as an art master, confront each other in a scene from “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” a Bark Mill Theater production, beginning Feb. 20.Casting is completed and rehearsals are in progesss for the next production by the Bark Mill Players, “The Prime of Miss ! Jean Brodie.” The play will open Feb. 20 at the Bark Mill Theatre for a six-day run, according to Bill Nethers, president of the Winchester Little Theater, Inc.Marjorie Lewis, a veteran performer at Bark Mill, plays die leading role of Jean Brodie, an unconventional teacher in a conservative girls’ school in Scotland in the early 1930’s.THE PLAY, revolves around her life in the school and those of her “special girls,” played by Carolyn Rhodes, Claudia Smith, Charla Hayea, and Kathy Slonaker.1 Her romantic interests, also | teachers, are played by Gil ! Bryan, as the art master, and * Wolf Schmeller, as the music teacher.r Jane Foster plays, Miss Mackay, the school’s headmistress, whose views on education oppose those of Jean r Brodie.' Jean Amos plays the nun in whose mind the action of the play!SEs to Lessen Auto TravelWhen you roast, bake, and boil i From morning till night s As you’re cooking you con-l stantly prayoccurs, prompted by the questions of reporter Roger Hovermale.Other parts feature Sherry O’Roarke, Judy Hollar, Cheryl Adams, Beth Slonaker, Kathy Meeker, Charlotte Allen, Debbie Knight, Susan Franklin, Julie Turner, Kathy Miller, and Tina Sisk.. DIRECTING the play is Barbara Swink, of Middletown’s Wayside Theater. David Schroeder is assistant director and Boyd Headley serves as production and stage manager.Jay Presson Allen, wife ofLewis Allen of Winchester, adapted the play from the novel of the same name by English author Muriel Spark. Mrs. Allen uses the technique of flashback as the framework for the play.Performances will be held nightly at the Bark Mill Theatre, at Wolfe and Braddock Streets, from Tuesday, Feb. 20 through Sunday, Feb. 25. All performances start at 8:15 p.m. except Sunday, which begins atj 6:30.For ticket information contact Mrs. James D. Robinson, Bloomery Star Route, or Shenval Music, in Winchester. ,
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Winchester Evening Star
Winchester, Virginia, US
Tue, Feb 06, 1973
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