It is 1930s Edinburgh, and the Marcia Blaine School - based on Spark’s memories of the James Gillespie High School - is run on rather strict, not to say Calvinistic, lines by Miss Mackay, who insists on rote learning and following the syllabus. Now it’s Lia Williams’s turn to be the charismatic purveyor of life knowledge at a stultifying school for girls, in the familiar story freshly adapted by Scottish playwright David Harrower. These include Vanessa Redgrave, Geraldine McEwan, Anna Massey, Patricia Hodge, Fiona Shaw and Siobhan Redmond. Miss Jean Brodie, the larger-than-life Edinburgh schoolteacher that strides in her sensible shoes through Muriel Spark’s 1961 novel, was memorably popularized by Maggie Smith in Ronald Neame’s Oscar-winning 1969 film version, but this flamboyant character has also been something of a magnet for other actors.
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