2 Oct – 7 Nov 2026 | Scottish Tour
Touring to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Pitlochry
A new stage adaptation by David Harrower from the novel by Muriel Spark
Directed by Vicky Featherstone | Featuring Gayle Rankin as Jean Brodie | Music by Pippa Murphy | A National Theatre of Scotland Production
‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life’
At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famously, in her prime.
Each year, Brodie selects her ‘set’. The crème de la crème of girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women they could become. In return, she demands utter loyalty from them all.
Witty, seductive and swirling in contradictions, Brodie’s mythical ability to invent her own truths and manipulate her girls ultimately leads her to risk everything.
In an adaptation by David Harrower, which sharpens the knives of Spark’s extraordinary work, and with a cast lead by Gayle Rankin (GLOW, House of The Dragon), this visceral production looks head on at our enduring moral fascination with such a beguiling and dangerous character.
Presented in partnership with The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and in association with Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Cast
Gayle Rankin (Jean Brodie)
Maureen Beattie
Liberty Black
Dyfan Dwyfor
Brian Ferguson
Sophie Fortune
Tallulah Greive
Shreya Khaund Marshall
Bobby Rainsbury
Direction: Vicky Featherstone
Design: Chloe Lamford
Costume and associate set design: Anna Orton
Movement: Charlotte McLean
Lighting: Lizzie Powell
Video: Lewis Den Hertog
Music: Pippa Murphy
Associate director: Sally Reid
Production manager: Fi Fraser
Construction manager: Jason Daily
Stage manager: Lucy May Wilson
Supported by:
Sir Ewan and Lady Brown
Walter and Norma Nimmo
The Britford Bridge Trust
BeeGee and LaLuna Park
