Daisy Pulls It Off

Daisy Pulls It Off
Written byDenise Deegan
Date premieredDecember 1983
Place premieredNuffield Theatre
Southampton
Original languageEnglish
Subjectcaptures the uncomplicated innocence of Angela Brazil's schoolgirl novels, set in 1927 super-achiever finally gains acceptance at school
GenreComedy parody
SettingEnglish boarding school for girls

Daisy Pulls It Off is a comedy play by Denise Deegan. It is an original script. It is a parody of wholesome adventure stories about life in a 1920s girls' English boarding school, in a similar genre to those by Angela Brazil. The original production of the play tested at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton in 1983, then ran for 1,180 performances in London at the Gielgud Theatre (then known as the Globe).