The Secret Garden...
THE SECRET GARDEN is more than a child's story. It is deeper and richer than a fairy tale, but just as elegant and complicated as drama in presenting themes about humanity of being lost and then found that are part of every person's life at any age.
This performance has one, dominant character... Mary Lennox (played masterfully as the star of the show by a pre-teen genius named Caitlyn Carroll) whose life is drawn out in wonderful fashion under David Metcalf's direction. We see Mary, lost in a strange world of relatives and servants in the midst of a huge manor estate where she has been forced to go after her parents' died, make it through with awe-inspired imagination and plain ole grit and determination. She never gives up the dream where she retains the memory of those she loved and begins to bond with others who love her. She shares her discovery of a special place to go with these dreams with a newly-discovered cousin who himself has been locked in a psychological jail of his own, and the story unfolds in a truly moving way.
This performance has one, dominant character... Mary Lennox (played masterfully as the star of the show by a pre-teen genius named Caitlyn Carroll) whose life is drawn out in wonderful fashion under David Metcalf's direction. We see Mary, lost in a strange world of relatives and servants in the midst of a huge manor estate where she has been forced to go after her parents' died, make it through with awe-inspired imagination and plain ole grit and determination. She never gives up the dream where she retains the memory of those she loved and begins to bond with others who love her. She shares her discovery of a special place to go with these dreams with a newly-discovered cousin who himself has been locked in a psychological jail of his own, and the story unfolds in a truly moving way.