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Daisy Miller
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 3m
Dawn Keeler
Adapted in collaboration with Adolf Wood
From the story by Henry James
Lake Geneva, 1878: a young expatriate, Frederick Winterbourne, meets Daisy Miller, a strikingly pretty young American from Schenectady. Though immediately infatuated with each other, they are socially worlds apart.
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Cast Size
4w, 3m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Adaptation (Literature), Period -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Details
Summary
Lake Geneva, 1878: a young expatriate, Frederick Winterbourne, meets Daisy Miller, a strikingly pretty young American from Schenectady. Though immediately infatuated with each other, they are socially worlds apart. Winterbourne fails to recognize that Daisy is that alarming new phenomenon, 'the American girl', free to do as she pleases. Daisy Miller has its intensely poignant denouement in Rome, where Daisy's conduct provokes the wrath of the city's American colony, and leads Winterbourne tragically to misjudge her. Dawn Keeler's adaptation of the Henry James story premiered at the Malvern Festival Theatre before a tour starring Richard Grieve, Scarlett Johnson, Jean Boht and Shirley Anne Field.
History
Malvern Festival Theatre, 30th August 2005
Cast Attributes
- Time Period Victorian (British and American)
- Setting 1878-9, in Vevey, a resort on Lake Geneva and Rome, Italy
- Features Period Costumes
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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