Daisy Pulls It Off

Daisy Pulls It Off
By Denise Deegan. Directed by Susan Lynch. Old Mill Theatre, South Perth (WA). Nov 25 - Dec 10, 2011.

An absolutely first rate little show, with a spiffing cast, having topping fun presenting this top hole little comedy with a cast full of new bugs (er I mean people making their community theatre debuts).

The director must have had a right time of it in order to get such splendiferous results. University student Zoe Cole looked as though she had stepped off the cover of an Angela Brazil novel, and her enthusiasm and earnest performance matched her brown eyes and bouncing curls to make a fantastic title character. 

We may have found a female Isaac Lim in the form of Sian Chin who played the loveable Trixie, Daisy’s bosom chum. This was one of the best stage debuts in years.

Baddies and Toadies were well played by Zoe Griffin as Sybil and Tallulah Starkie as Monica. Head girl Claire was played with a Judith Lucy twitch by Rebekah Easton, well supported by Bianca Stewart as Alice. Anna Peluso created a well-rounded, firm but fair headmistress while the remaining staff and students generally got the gist of fun.

Costumes and set were simple and well used. There were a few errors in the form of traps for new players, such as wrong handed handshakes, occasional tongue tied delivery and enthusiastically destroying the set during the hot water bottle fight, but these we easily overlooked in the spirit of the game.

Kimberley Shaw

Photographs (from top): Tahlia Norrish, Tallulah Starkie and Zoe Cole; Ann Speicher and Zoe Cole; & Zoe Cole, Sian Chin, Bianca Stewart.

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