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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.

Daisy Miller

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptations (Literature), Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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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
Performing Groups

Daisy Miller - a young american

Frederick Winterbourne - a young American living in Europe

Mrs Miller - Daisy's Mother

Mrs Costello - Winterbourne's Aunt

Mrs Walker - american Widow

Giovanelli - Italian lawyer

Eugenio - Swiss courier

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Servant

Can be cast with 2 males and 4 females

  • 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)

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Dawn Keeler

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