Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery’s most enduring and much-loved heroine. Novel Theatre presents this new stage adaptation by Emma Reeves, directed by Andrew Loudon.

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert live and work on their smallholding in a pretty country village but are beginning to feel their age. They decide to employ a boy to help them with the duties on their farm and approach the orphan asylum for suggestions. Due to a misunderstanding, a girl – Anne Shirley – arrives instead. To leave the orphanage and stay at Green Gables would be a dream come true for the red-haired and fanciful Anne. Eventually, Matthew and Marilla decide she can stay with them but are unprepared for the amazing scrapes that she keeps getting into. She dyes her hair green, accidentally gets her best friend drunk and smashes her slate over the head of the handsomest boy in school…