The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Sandy

Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario

“Cara Hunter is a budding star; her coiled energy, watchful demeanour and gradual revenge are all played with an underlying maturity that is able to give way to the young child, eager for approval.”
Mira Friedlander, Variety Magazine

“Hunter neatly manages Sandy’s maturation from a bossy school girl to the priggish young woman who justifiably, but contemptuously, denounces Miss Brodie.”
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail

“Hunter is completely convincing as a pre-pubescent schoolgirl. So deftly does she handle the role that the passage of time can be ascertained by the maturation of her character.”
Bonnie Gropp, Citizen

“Cara Hunter in the crucial role as Sandy, …creates a wholly credible adolescent and young woman. Her physical and vocal maturity provide the point of balance that the play demands.”
Joel Greenberg, Aisle Say, Toronto

“The girl who betrays her worshipped Miss B., Cara Hunter, excellent in the part.”
Terry Doran, Buffalo News

“Cara Hunter as Sandy was great. The moment she realizes she can never make Ms. Brodie’s former lover, Teddy Lloyd (Wayne Best) her own, was the strongest of the evening.”
Jonathan Harrison, Cambridge Reporter

“Hunter, as schoolgirl Sandy, is perfectly cast in the role that allows her acting, rather than acknowledged dancing talent, to shine. Her stage growth from ‘little girl’ to sexually active teenager (is) remarkable.”
Jim Lingerfelt and Roger Kershaw, Stage Door

“The production sings with a chorus of fine performance: Cara Hunter’s tentative, troubled, ‘dependable’ Sandy, the girl who breaks free of Miss Brodie’s spell…”
Janice Kennedy, Ottawa Citizen

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