When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle’s great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears crying down one of the long corridors. She tracks it down to her cousin Colin, who has spent his entire life in bed, unable to walk.

One day, Mary finds a key that leads her to a garden held locked for years and completely overgrown. Mary and her friend Dickon nurse the garden back to life, bringing joy back to the house and those living there.

Elizabeth Newman’s new adaptation celebrates the power of transformation and healing through nature.

This production makes the launch of OVO's new community ensemble, aimed at giving local people the chance to perform in high quality productions in a professional environment.

In the 50s and 60s Ewan MacColl along with Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts for the BBC Home Service covering a variety of subjects and using an audio documentary format to highlight the experiences of real people weaving the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about their recorded interviews.

Almost half a century later, in 2006, a new set of Radio Ballads were commissioned by BBC Radio 2 using the same format but this time involving a whole team of stellar musicians, singers and songwriters from the folk/acoustic/roots music scene under the guiding hands and watchful eyes of producer John Leonard and musical director John Tams.

Now three members of that team - Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews - have put together a selection of songs from the 2006 new Radio Ballads for a concert performance.

All three are consummate engaging performers of meaningful songs and stories and are multi-instrumentalists whose skills have been honed by decades of live touring throughout UK, Europe, Canada, U.S.A, Australia and New Zealand. They have all recorded extensively, worked in collaboration with many of the top folk roots artists and bands as well as having highly successful solo careers and are well loved and respected by audiences and colleagues alike.

Expect to be entertained and enlightened by songs of joy, love, hardship and humour.

Join local soprano Kate Lindeman and guest performers for an enchanting evening of musical theatre magic.

Featuring songs from Broadway and the West End’s biggest hits and from movie musical favourites such as The Greatest Showman and The Sound of Music, this concert is not to be missed.

Following a sell out performance at OVO last summer, Kate is delighted to be back, with help from some very special local talent, to bring you another evening of beautiful, soul stirring music.

The concert will showcase some of the best known and most well loved musical theatre pieces from the past 75 years. With classic numbers from Rodgers and Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and some more modern musical theatre arrangements from shows such as ‘Songs for a New World’ and ‘Wicked’, it is set to be a wonderful evening of music, with a little something for everyone.