Jesuit college puts on West End schoolgirl farce

The cast of Daisy Pulls It Off including, in the front row, second from left, Madeleine O'Dwyer, 14, who played scholarship girl Daisy, and Mary Flanagan, 14, centre, who played her accomplice Trixie Martin

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A long tradition of drama at the Jesuit public school Stonyhurst College continues with a production of the popular farce Daisy Pulls It Off! by Denise Deegan.

The play is a parody of adventure stories that are set in English boarding schools for girls such as the works of Angela Brazil. For the new production, the 400-year-old Lancashire school was tranformed into Grangewood School for Young Ladies.

A spokesman said: "A jolly good audience had a ripping time watching the workshop production of Daisy Pulls It Off!

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