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Daisy pulls off something of a triumph
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Daisy Pulls it Off
Park Theatre, London
PRIOR to the onset of digital and social media, the preferred opiate of the pre-adolescent masses was comics. For girls, these were the likes of Judy, Bunty and, for previous generations, the School Girls Own Annual, the inspiration and source material for Denise Deegan’s play Daisy Pulls it Off.
In perverse contrast to most children’s life experience, there has always been a fascination with the public-school experience which persists to the present day, not least within the walls of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts.
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