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IT TAKES courage to take a much-loved children’s classic and successfully put it on the stage but Salford Theatre Company have done just that in this recreation of the wonderful novel about children in the Edwardian period by Manchester author Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Expertly adapted by Neil Duffield, it takes audiences on a magical journey from India all the way to the Yorkshire Dales.
Ten-year-old Mary Lennox, played by the mesmerising Libby Hall, is a sickly orphan who’s transported from her home in India to live with her reclusive uncle Mr Craven. Accustomed to treating her Indian servants imperiously, she finds out that her feisty Yorkshire maid Martha, ably played by Hazel Wilson, is not so docile.
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