Island Shakespeare Festival - Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw
By Henry James
Adapted for the stage by Jeffery Hatcher

Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes

Short zippy description: Two children and a governess alone in a remote English estate, but things that go bump in the night might be more than the wind. Who is in danger, the children or the governess, and what did their uncle know before he sent them there? The predator might be prey, but who is the mastermind? A tour de force by two actors, this adaption of Henry James’ story will send shivers down your spine!

Plot description: Based on the 1898 provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this adaptation gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. But she is not their first governess. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself found dead soon after under mysterious circumstances. Now the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children, and she must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But one frightening question tortures the would-be heroine: Are the ghosts real, or are they the product of her own fevered imagination?

Ticket price: $40, $25, $15; Pay What You Will at the door though we do expect to sell out

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