Anything will grow anywhere with some minding, a gardener tells the freshly orphaned girl who finds herself uprooted in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s classic.
This adaptation by Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard reimagines it as a drama about dual heritage and cultural displacement. It is set in a time of rising political unrest in the Indian Raj with partition as a backdrop to the story of Mary Lennox (Hannah Khalique-Brown), the contrarian 10-year-old who is now the daughter of an Indian mother and English father, both of whom die in the cholera epidemic.
