Word: dickon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cohen spent four months as Dickon in the New York production of "The Secret Garden," later reprising his role on the national tour during his junior year in high school. Now he's an astronomy and astrophysics concentrator in Adams House...
...only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother and now closed up by his father -- live country folk who can talk to animals, notably the puckish Dickon (John Cameron Mitchell). The first act takes a long, slow time setting things up. The second act thrillingly resolves them. Like the novel, this adaptation rewards patience with a satisfying surge of emotion, a sense that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world...