Royal Lyceum
Gayle Rankin arrives on stage as a vision in avocado green, oxblood, and electric blue. Resembling a butterfly in human form, it’s clear from the start this take on Muriel Spark’s iconic school mistress will be polarising.
In David Harrower’s new adaptation for the National Theatre of Scotland, that was always likely to be the case; the production explicitly promises to reimagine the 1930s model for a modern audience.
Based on Muriel Spark’s iconoclastic 1961 novel set in the 1930s, the subversion of the book’s central character by Harrower will undoubtedly divide purists and progressives. This is not necessarily a bad thing, however; after all, Brodie herself declared, “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.” Continue reading here.
