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Secret Garden, The (Duffield)

Orphan Mary Lennox, snobbish and aloof, is sent to stay with her reclusive uncle at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Theatre for Young Audiences

  • Time Period: 1900-1910
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Jr High/Primary, Community Theatre
Orphan Mary Lennox, snobbish and aloof, is sent to stay with her reclusive uncle at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire. She makes friends with Dickon, who understands animals and nature, and discovers a secret garden that she can tend. Mary, her invalid cousin Colin, and then his grieving father, feel the power of the magic of new life and growth. 

Premiere Production: The Secret Garden was first presented at the Polka Theatre, Wimbeldon, London on 13th February 1997.
  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Features Children
  • Casting Notes: If required, Mr Craven and Ben Weatherstaff can be doubled.

  • MARY LENNOX - a young girl
    MARTHA - a young maid
    MRS MEDLOCK - housekeeper to Mr Craven
    DICKON - Martha's younger brother
    COLIN - Mr Craven's son
    BEN WEATHERSTAFF - a gardener
    MR CRAVEN - Mary's uncle
  • PHOTOGRAPHER
    MOTHER
    FATHER
    AYAH
    SERVANT
    SHIP 1
    SHIP 2
  • Animals -- puppets to be operated by cast of stage management
    SNAKE
    ROBIN
    LAMB
    FOX
    RAVEN
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    Orphan Mary Lennox, snobbish and aloof, is sent to stay with her reclusive uncle at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire. She makes friends with Dickon, who understands animals and nature, and discovers a secret garden that she can tend. Mary, her invalid cousin Colin, and then his grieving father, feel the power of the magic of new life and growth. 

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