YOU just know Daisy is in for a torrid time. England's green and pleasant land of the 1920s held untold troubles for an elementary schoolgirl who wins a surprise scholarship to a public school for the daughters of privileged, upper-class gentlefolk.

But Daisy, deliciously played by Margaret Hall, is a special girl. And her story makes for a spiffing night of fun and frolics in "Daisy Pulls It Off", St Joseph's Players' play-within-a-play which tomorrow (Friday, May 23) ends a four-night run at St Joseph's Hall, Leigh.

You, the audience, become part of a forgotten world of past scholastic glories as you enter the cloistered portals of Grangewood for the annual festival week.

There is the austere teaching staff, headed by Katherine Roberts and including Mary Roach, June Lee and David Hodgkinson, vigilant matron Lynne Turley and mysterious gardener Fred Barnes.

And then there are those often frightful girls, complete with their jolly hockey sticks: the friend Angela Grime, the foes Barbara Mayers and Clare Nash, the seniors Donna Wood, Sarah Dunlop and Nicola Reynolds and the juniors Rachel Robinson, Stephanie Woods and Margaret Clark-Hall.

Directed by Doreen Johnson, it's an absolute hoot!

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