Colin and Mary soon spend almost every day in the garden, sometimes with Dickon as company. Angry at being called "crippled", Colin stands up from his chair and finds that his legs are fine, though weak from long disuse. Startled to find the children in the secret garden, he admits that he believed Colin to be "a cripple". While in the garden, the children look up to see Ben Weatherstaff looking over the wall on a ladder. It is the first time he has been outdoors for several years. Colin is put into his wheelchair and brought outside into the secret garden. Mary finally confides that she has access to the secret garden, and Colin asks to see it. Mary visits him every day that week, distracting him from his troubles with stories of the moor, Dickon and his animals and the secret garden. He, like Mary, has grown spoilt, demanding and self-centred, with servants obeying his every whim in order to prevent the frightening hysterical tantrums Colin occasionally flies into. She soon discovers that they are cousins, Colin being the son of Archibald Craven, and that he suffers from an unspecified spinal problem which precludes him from walking and causes him to spend all of his time in bed. She is startled to find a boy of her age named Colin, who lives in a hidden bedroom. One night, Mary hears the cries once more and decides to follow them through the house. Eager to absorb his gardening knowledge, Mary tells him about the secret garden. Mary and Dickon take a liking to each other, as Dickon has a kind way with animals and a good nature. She asks Martha for garden tools, which Martha sends with Dickon, her 12-year-old brother, who spends most of his time out on the moors. Here, Mary finds the key to the locked garden, and eventually she discovers the door to the garden. Mary wonders about the secret garden and about mysterious cries that echo through the house at night.Īs Mary explores the gardens, the robin draws her attention to an area of disturbed soil. Her health and attitude improve with the bracing Yorkshire air, and she grows stronger as she explores the estate gardens. Soon, she comes to enjoy the company of Martha, the gardener Ben Weatherstaff and a friendly robin redbreast. Mary becomes interested in finding the secret garden herself, and her ill manners begin to soften as a result. Lilias Craven died after an accident in the garden ten years prior, and the devastated Archibald locked the garden and buried the key. Over time, she becomes less temperamental and befriends her maid, Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about Lilias, who would spend hours in a private walled garden growing roses. She dislikes her new home, the people living in it and, most of all, the bleak moor on which it sits. When escorted to Misselthwaite by the housekeeper Mrs Medlock, she discovers Lilias Craven is dead and that Mr Craven is a hunchback.Īt first, Mary is as sour and rude as ever.
He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country house, Misselthwaite Manor. She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married.
She is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her by calling her " Mistress Mary, quite contrary". After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. Please bring your own picnic blankets or low-backed seating.At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her.
Gates open for picnics at 5.30pm and the show starts at 6.30pm. The Secret Garden will be performed in the grounds of Enniskillen Castle, a stunning open-air venue for a wonderful evening of theatre under the stars. Relive this tale of secrecy and curiosity in what will be one of the highlights of the summer. Picnic with friends and family and enjoy this enchanting story, loved by children and adults alike. As she makes new friends and encounters magical creatures, Mary has one burning question: where is the location of her uncle’s secret garden, and where has he hidden the key? This summer, join young Mary Lennox on a journey of discovery as she is sent to her uncle’s house in the countryside, where mysteries and secrets lurk round every corner.
Chapterhouse Theatre Company is proud to present The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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