The Secret Garden
From: Thursday, 26th January 2012
To: Friday, 27 January 2012
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Synopsis
We follow the story of Mary who finds herself alone and unwanted in a bleak Yorkshire manor house. A simple story of two children who bring about a wonderful transformation of a long forgotten garden and in turn when they share the secret of the hidden garden, the entire household is brought back to life and the sad ghosts of the past are laid to rest.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 27 January 2012
Children’s theatre – I’ll rephrase that – theatre for younger audiences – can tackle dark issues and universal themes very successfully. Take, for example, the Dorset-based Angel Exit Theatre and its new version of the 100 year-old classic story The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Adaptation and direction are by Tamsin Fessey and Lynne Forbes who use a range of theatre techniques, including mime (the Jacques Lecoq training shows) and puppetry, to draw us into the worlds of Mary Lennox.
She’s not your typical Victorian heroine, far from it. Ashleigh Cheadle makes her arrogant and almost ill-favoured as well as bad-tempered. As she is taken from her cosseted but lonely childhood in colonial India following her laisser-faire parents’ deaths during a cholera epidemic to a remote manor-house on the Yorkshire moors, she begins to learn how to listen as well as shout, how to give as well as take. But it’s a slow ...
Creative
Frances Hodgson Burnett (Book)
Activate (Producer)
Lighthouse Poole (Producer)
Dorchester Arts (Producer)
Bridport Arts Centre (Producer)
Angel Exit (Company)
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