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The Secret Garden, Salford Arts Theatre
Classic children's novel gets an excellent adaptation by Salford Theatre Company
Mesmerising: Libby Hall as Mary Lennox
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
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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