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Secret Garden, The (Swale)

  • Jessica Swale
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Adaptations (Literature), 1910s / WWI
  • 5M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780573150418

When a garden's kept proper, all weeded and neat, that chases the wild away. But when it's left alone, for nature, who knows what secret things grow there..

In Jessica Swale's richly imagined adaptation of Hodgson Burnett's much loved classic, we follow the fortunes of Mary as her ice begins to melt and her curiosity leads her on one of the greatest adventures in popular literature.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Adaptations (Literature)
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1910s / WWI
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
It's 1910, and life for the spoiled young Mary Lennox is pretty easy. She spends her days luxuriating in the Indian sunshine whilst her aristocratic parents rule the Indian Raj. But when an unexpected twist of fate leaves Mary orphaned, she finds herself on her way to England to live with her distant Uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire Moors.

Misselthwaite is no place for children. Full of dark corners and strange night-time noises, Mary is certain there is more to Misselthwaite than meets the eye. But although she can't solve the mysteries alone, when her maid Martha offers the hand of friendship, Mary won't have it. Mistresses can't be friends with their servants...or can they?

Will Martha melt Mary's frosty exterior? Will Mary uncover the source of the cries in the night? And will her curiosity lead her to solve the greatest mystery of Misselthwaite, the legend of the Secret Garden?

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Features Teens, Features Children, Roles for Children

  • MARY LENNOX - a young girl
    MARTHA - a servant, the same age as Mary
    DICKON - Martha's brother
    COLIN CRAVEN - a sickly boy
    MRS. MEDLOCK - a strict housekeeper
    ARCHIBALD CRAVEN - Colin's father (Mary's uncle)
    BEN WEATHERSTAFF - the Gardener
    MRS PHIPPS - a servant at Misselthwaite
    MR PITCHER - a servant at Misselthwaite
    DR CRAVEN - Archibald's cousin
    MRS. LENNOX - Mary's mother
    MR. LENNOX - Mary's father
    AYAH - the Lennox's Indian house servant
    INSPECTORS 1 & 2 DR. MADELEINE BRÉS - a pioneering Doctor
    SEVERAL PUPPETS

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    It's 1910, and life for the spoiled young Mary Lennox is pretty easy. She spends her days luxuriating in the Indian sunshine whilst her aristocratic parents rule the Indian Raj. But when an unexpected twist of fate leaves Mary orphaned, she finds herself on her way to England to live with her distant Uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire Moors.

    Misselthwaite is no place for children. Full of dark corners and strange night-time noises, Mary is certain there is more to Misselthwaite than meets the eye. But although she can't solve the mysteries alone, when her maid Martha offers the hand of friendship, Mary won't have it. Mistresses can't be friends with their servants...or can they?

    Will Martha melt Mary's frosty exterior? Will Mary uncover the source of the cries in the night? And will her curiosity lead her to solve the greatest mystery of Misselthwaite, the legend of the Secret Garden?

    		$24.95

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