A lonely refugee child discovers that healing, connection, and joy can grow in unexpected ways when a forgotten garden, and the people around it, are allowed to flourish on their own terms.
A community-driven neurodivergent adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic story for a new generation.
For Communities
We're building a community chorus of autistic and ADHD adults to work alongside professional artists in developing this adaptation. That means workshops, making things, moving, singing, and having a real say in how the story is told.
We know that turning up to something new is not always easy. We're building this process with that in mind, from the first email you send us to the moment you walk through the door. Quiet spaces, clear information, no pressure, and people who get it.
This is your story as much as anyone's. We'd like you to help us tell it.
For Venues
The Secret Garden is designed to develop into a production that is genuinely built with its audience in mind from the very beginning. Sensory-friendly, community-rooted, and artistically ambitious, it is the kind of work that opens doors to audiences who have learned not to bother knocking.
We are at R&D stage and looking for venue partners who want to programme this work. If you want to be part of shaping it rather than inheriting it, we'd love to hear from you.
For Producers
This is an early-stage project with serious ambitions. The R&D is designed to generate something worth taking further, a production that can tour, that has a real audience, and that means something beyond the subsidised sector bubble. We're looking for people who want to own a share of what this becomes.
In return for financial partnership at this stage, we are offering co-ownership of the work and a producing credit. The earlier you come in, the more you help shape what it is.
If you're an organisation, a trust, a foundation, or an individual who backs new work and wants to be genuinely involved rather than just acknowledged, we'd like to talk.
For Artists
We're looking for artists who want to work at the intersection of neurodivergent experience, community practice, and ambitious storytelling. People who are comfortable with process, who can hold space as generously as they hold their craft, and who are genuinely curious about what this story becomes when it is made from the inside out.
We're particularly interested in connecting with neurodivergent artists, and with artists of South Asian heritage, especially those with roots in Indian music, movement and performance traditions. This adaptation is in active conversation with those traditions, and we want that to be reflected in who makes it.
If the project speaks to you, get in touch.