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A child for all seasons
From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001129
Author:RACHEL HALLIBURTON
THE SECRET GARDEN
RSC Stratford-upon-Avon
ADRIAN Noble's musical production of The Secret Garden seizes gardening back from the likes of Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock, and redefines it as the famous setting for a children's fantasy world. Unlike Frances Hodgson Burnett's repulsively angelic hero, Little Lord Fauntleroy, who embodied the Victorians' sweet-toothed taste for sentimentality, her later heroine Mary Lennox proves to be a true child of the 21st century, with her acidic common-sense, assertiveness and anarchic attitude.
Noble knows that he is usurping the imaginations of ...
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