Denise Deegan’s play Daisy Pulls It Off, first performed in 1983, is an affectionate pastiche of the classic girls school story. Chock full of slang like “topping”, “jolly” and “scrummy”, the play concerns a scholarship girl from a poor family called Daisy Meredith, who attends the exclusive Grangewood School. The plot involves hidden treasure, a long-lost father, a conceited prefect, and the traditional lashings of hockey matches, secret passwords and dormitory pranks.
The most obvious difference between Daisy Pulls It Off and other school story parodies such as St. Trinian’s is the obvious affection Deegan has for the stories of writers like Angela Brazil and Eleanor Brent-Dyer. The critic Ju Gosling has written approvingly of Daisy Pulls It Off (in an essay entitled Laughing at Ourselves) contrasting the play with works by “male parodists” which “reveal their fear of what is represented by the genre by parodying it”. Gosling also cites reviews and interviews with those who have produced the play, arguing that it is not a satire on the genre, but a loving homage to it.
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