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The Secret Garden

Director

Ben Occhipinti

Company

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Role

Robin

Type

Theatre

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about the show. 
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors, eventually tracking it down to her cousin Colin who has spent his entire life in bed, unable to walk.
One day Mary finds a key that leads her to a garden held locked for years and completely overgrown. Mary and her friend Dickon bring the garden back to life and the flourishing garden brings joy back to the house and those living in it.
Elizabeth Newman's new adaption of one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature is set in the Theatre's beautiful Amphitheatre and celebrates the power of transformation and healing through nature.


Reviews

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Matthew Churcher makes a warmly humane narrator.

WHATS ON STAGE


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"Occhipinti's perfectly pitched production leads us through a series of magical moments, as the stage opens up to Pitlochry's own forest garden, and Dickon brings his animal friends to meet the audience, in gorgeous puppet form."

THE SCOTSMAN

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"The staging embraces simplicity, with a very small number of props to suggest individual locations, and some winningly cute puppet animals to supplement the human cast..."

WHATS ON STAGE


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"This is an enriching, affirmative show about grief, steeped in gentle wonder. It revels in the positive benefits to mental health and human connection that the natural world can afford."

THE STAGE

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BROADWAY BABY


CAST

Shona White
Trudy Ward
Jack Ward
Marc Small
Blythe Jandoo
Oliver Cookson
Matthew Churcher
Robbie Scott

CREATIVE

Author
Adapted by
Director
Composor
Designer
Costume Designer
Stage Manager
DSM
ASM
Frances Hogson Burnett
Elizabeth Newman
Ben Occhipinti
Ben Occhipinti
Nick Trueman
Natalie Fern
Katy Nicolson
Claire Litton
Rebecca Gorman

Trailer

Behind the scenes

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