“Swept along in a shameless sea of sentiment and schmaltz, buoyed by a smashing performance in the title role by Caroline Toal, and enjoying a contact high from the enthusiastic enjoyment of a theatre full of young children, I fell in love – reluctantly – with Anne of Green Gables…
Sarah Dodd and Tim Campbell bring the Cuthbert household to vivid life. Dodd is incisive in evoking Marilla’s flinty determination born of her hardscrabble farm life. She makes every reluctant step of her gradual warming to Anne crystal clear.
As the kinder, gentler Matthew, Campbell is wonderfully endearing, not to mention quite funny…
It looks like the Festival has another hit on its hands.”