The Secret Garden
T700200491
Archive :: production:T700200491, dance or ballet:S224511170, venue:V315
Production details
Mary Lennox, heroine of The Secret Garden, has always been a great favourite among children. The ballet opens in the colourful setting of colonial India. Mary's elegant mother is far too vain to pay attention to her rather plain and sullen daughter, and spoils her with presents instead of showing her love. When the little girl is suddenly orphaned, she is packed off to England to live with her reclusive Uncle. The blunt ways of her Uncle's Yorkshire household are a shock for spoilt Mary, and the household servants persist in trying to cheer her up. But great mystery surrounds the great house with the sound of crying in the night, whispering in the corridors and finally the rumours of a forbidden locked secret garden. With the help of a cheeky robin and new found friends, Mary discovers the secret garden. Magical friendships forms, and Mary blossoms with the trees and flowers as the warm weather turns the Secret Garden into a small paradise in the midst of the bleak Yorkshire landscape.
