On March 5 and 6, the Kent Place Upper School presented their winter play DAISY PULLS IT OFF to parents, students, faculty and community members. DAISY was directed by Chair of the Drama Department, Robert Pridham. DAISY was written by Denise Deegan.

DAISY’s featured performers were Jayne Pasternak, Maryam Kahn, Shayna Gleason, Janie McGraw, Rachael Miller, Briana Shaw, Becca McCarthy, Ali Millard, Meghan Ferguson, Baily Blanchard, Katja Yacker, Julia Cicchino, Eleanor Haglund, Janeen Browne, Maura Hargrave-Kerns, Joanna Massa, Jordan Cobb, Emily Bridges, Morgan Hoit, Annie Hilton and Maddy Mulderry. Jaya Robillard served the stage manager with Gina Cacciola as assistant stage manager.

Set in 1920, in an impossibly posh and rippingly four-square, spiffingly upfront English boarding school for intrepid young ladies, this thriller follows the adventures of newcomer Daisy Meredith as she struggles to maintain a truly British stiff upper lip while Monica Smithers and her sniveling toady Sybil Burlington plot to destroy her. Dodging the stern but loving headmistress Miss Gibson, whilst joining their classmates on the hockey field in a desperate attempt to thwart archrival Vearncombe School, Daisy and her best chum Trixie Martin uncover dark doings in the shadowy corridors of Grangewood School. And when Daisy and Trixie set out to discover the mysterious history of the fierce Russian teacher Madame Scoblowski, they stumble upon a secret so absolutely dire, so thrillingly awful, that all of Grangewood School may be in danger!

The theater program at Kent Place is committed to the production of musical and non-musical theater, and maintains a special focus on the creation and performance of new plays. In tri-state competitions, Upper School theater productions have received multiple awards for excellence in production and performance.