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46 Events maltatoday, SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 MADC opens season with 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' MADC opens its new season with The Prime of Miss Jean Br- odie directed by Chiara Hyzler, at Blue Box theatre. "Give me a girl at an impres- sionable age, and she is mine for life." So speaks Jean Brodie, the liberated and charismatic school- teacher in an all-girls school in Edinburgh in the 1930s. Eccentric, egocentric, and charming, Brodie believes that in1930 she is in her prime, and this perception inf luences her teaching that becomes all the more idiosyncratic and personal. She ignores the standard cur- riculum and teaches her students about art, culture, and politics in line with her own passion for culture and knowledge, concen- trating her efforts on a small group of favoured girls, her "Bro- die set". Miss Brodie develops them cul- turally, confiding in them and they become loyal and admire her. These include the beautiful Jenny, a timid Mary MacGregor, and the sharp-witted Sandy, who watches carefully as Miss Brodie instructs her charges to – "do as I say and not as I do!" Miss Brodie manipulates and brainwashes them into follow- ing all her ideologies instead of those of the school. The play fol- lows her journey and the conse- quences of her actions with the staff and on her set. The Prime of Miss Jean Bro- die is a gripping, entertaining, powerful drama of adolescence and adulthood, of betrayal and manipulation, and the powerful, lasting effect of a charismatic teacher. Jean Brodie is played by Julia Calvert with Jasmine Farrugia as Sandy, Taryn Mamo Cefai as Jenny and Kyra Lautier as Mary MacGregor. The cast includes Sandie Von Brockdorff, Jonathan Dunn, Stefan Farrugia, Kather- ine Brown, Ninette Micallef and Michael Mangion. The Primee of Miss Jean Brodie runs from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th and from Friday 14th to Sun- day 16th 9th 19th to Sunday 24th July, at Blue Box at M Space, Msi- da (Opposite entrance to Junior College) BOOKING: Online www. bluebox.com.mt, Tel: 2124 6644 Mob: 7979 3737 Malta Public Transport offers free transport to vulnerable job-seekers VULNERABLE job-seekers can now make use of free public trans- port, after Malta Public Trans- port signed an agreement with the Malta Association of Support- ed Employment, offering partici- pants of the Positive Supported Employment Programme (PSEP) free credit on their tallinja bus cards so they can attend training sessions and job interviews. The PSEP provides vulnerable individuals in the poverty line with training sessions to help them build the necessary skills to find a job. PSEP executive director Mar- these Mugliette said public trans- port is the only means of mobil- ity for most participants. "Such gestures will enable them to in- tegrate better within society," she said. Malta Public Transport said the initiative would encourage peo- ple to develop their skills to be more independent. "We believe that giving a little helping hand to get started can boost their mo- tivation and actually make a dif- ference," MPT general manager Konrad Pulé said. Marthese Mugliette (left) with Konrad Pulé Premier Capital opens 68th McDonald's restaurant in Romania PREMIER Capital plc, the Mal- tese-owned developmental licen- cee for McDonald's in six Europe- an markets, has inaugurated the 68th restaurant in Romania. This is the first new restaurant to open since Premier Capital was granted the developmental licence for the brand in Romania last January. The restaurant, the 33rd in Ro- mania's capital Bucharest, oc- cupies a total 118 square metres at the newly opened ParkLake shopping mall where numerous major brands have also secured a presence. The 70,000-square me- tre shopping mall on the eastern part of the city is one of the most desirable commercial locations in Bucharest for its catchment population. Its location in the Ti- tan district has a population den- sity of 30,000 people per square kilometre, one of the highest in Europe. Featuring the striking Mall Fa- çade styling, the McDonald's res- taurant at ParkLake is the first in Romania to immediately oper- ate the 'Made For You' customer service system that allows crew to prepare all meals at the time of order according to custom- ers' requests. It also features the first McCafe in a Romanian mall. More than 60 jobs were created for this new restaurant. Every day, 4,400 crew serve more than 190,000 customers at a McDon- ald's restaurant in 21 cities in Ro- mania. Premier Capital is the develop- mental licence for McDonald's in Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithu- ania, Malta and Romania, operat- ing 133 restaurants with a team exceeding 7,000 people. More than 100 million customers are served every year across Premier Capital's footprint, generating annual revenue of €230 million. Premier Capital is to open two more restaurants in Romania and two in Greece before the year's end. "Premier Capital took over the Romanian market with a strong commitment to fulfil its potential in efficient timeframes," Victor Tedesco, Managing Director at Premier Capital plc, explained. "We are applying the extensive experience we have gained across our footprint and mobilising our senior team to support the growth and the modernisation of the Romanian market. More restaurants will be converted to adopt the Made For You customer service system in Romania in the next few months. We are also di- recting considerable investment to our other markets where our expansion plans are progressing at a steady pace," Tedesco said.