Jean Brodie for Lyceum
NTS tour kicks off in October 2026
A new adaptation by David Harrower of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will open at the Lyceum on Friday 9 October 2026 ahead of a tour to the Glasgow Citizens, His Majesty’s Aberdeen and Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
The National Theatre of Scotland production will be directed by Vicky Featherstone and feature Gayle Rankin in the title role of Miss Jean Brodie. Tickets for the Lyceum performances are on sale now to Lyceum patrons and will go on general sale from 1pm on Wednesday 19 November 2025.
Gayle Rankin who will star in the title role of the NTS production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Pic: Andrew Arthur.
At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is – famously – in her prime.
Each year Brodie selects her ‘set’. The crème de la crème of Girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women they could become. In return, she demands utter loyalty from them all.
David Harrower’s adaptation sharpens the knives of Spark’s extraordinary work, with a cast lead by Gayle Rankin (Glow, House of The Dragon) and directed by the NTS’s founding artistic director Vicky Featherstone. This visceral production promisers to look head on at our enduring moral fascination with such a beguiling and dangerous character.
20th anniversary season
The production will open for previews on Friday October 2, 2026 and will ten full dates at the Lyceum after press night on October 9. It will tour through to Saturday 7 November 2026.
The new production is part of the NTS’s 20th anniversary season which includes the already announced THE HIGH LIFE – The Musical, Still Living It! Due to play the Festival Theatre.
Stand and Deliver – Jemima Levick, Paul English, Maggie Wallace, Helen Monaghan and Frances Poet. Pic: James Chapelard.
Other new work in the season, announced today, includes Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In by Frances Poet, directed by Jemima Levick, which will play the Traverse in the late Spring, after opening at the Glasgow Tron.
Stand & Deliver is from an idea conceived by Paul English and Frances Poet ands comes 45 years after the legendary occupation of the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock. It tells a powerful and personal story of political resistance, workers’ determination and lifelong friendships and will be performed with a live 80’s soundtrack.
Listings
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street EH3 9AX.
Preview performances: Fri 2 – Thurs 8 Oct 2026.
Fri, Mon-Thurs: 7.30pm.
Full performances: Fri 9 – Sun 18 October 2026.
Tue – Sat: 7.30pm. Mats: Wed 14, Sat 17: 2.30pm.
Tickets and details: Book here.
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