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The Secret Garden

This Christmas, there’s only one musical guaranteed to appeal to ALL the family... Read more …

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s novel, The Secret Garden, comes to wondrous life in this brand new production, featuring the enchanting music of Lucy Simon and the spellbinding lyrics of Marsha Norman.

In a sad and lonely house on the Yorkshire moors, the melancholy routine of a family in mourning is turned upside down with the arrival of young orphan, Mary Lennox. When the curious child discovers the key to the hidden door of a secret, walled garden, a long-locked away magic is released, changing the lives of all, forever.


The critical consensus

Set pieces glide across the stage ... a beautiful and emotion-heavy production.

Michael Cox, Onstage Scotland, 14/12/2010

A live band sends the music powering out of the pit – all to splendid effect but, while adults will be swept up in the sung narrative, younger children may fidget, as if locked out of this Secret Garden.

****(*)Mary Brennan, The Herald, 14/12/2010

Beautifully staged and choreographed, this Tony Award winning tale is visually enchanting. Just be prepared for more ghostly shenanigans than Heathcliffe and Cathy.

*****Joise Balfour, Edinburgh Evening News, 13/12/2010

The Secret Garden manages to inject enough love and hope to rise above the misery.

****(*)Kelly Apter, The List, 15/12/2010

A gorgeous, polished, haunting, intelligent and deeply dramatic piece of music theatre, spectacular in scale, beautifully performed, and powerfully directed by Anna Linstrum, with fine design and lighting by Francis O'Connor and Tim Mitchell.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 17/12/2010

A thoroughly entertaining production that leaves few dry eyes in the house.

Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 21/12/2010


Features about The Secret Garden

Stage musical The Secret Garden stars Siobhan Redmond

Yasmin Sulaiman, The List, 23/11/2010

Music, magic and mystery in The Secret Garden this Christmas

STV, 03/12/2010

Siobhan Redmond picks her winter blooms from The Secret Garden

The Herald, 06/12/2010

Getting ready for The Secret Garden

Catherine Salmond, The Scotsman, 09/12/2010

Interview: Siobhan Redmond, actress in The Secret Garden

Lee Randall, The Scotsman, 07/12/2010

Where and when?

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Thursday December 9, 2010, until Saturday January 8, 2011. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival

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