![]() ![]() The campfire storytelling framework of the novel is switched here for a conceit that promises interesting development for Flora but rather breaks the tension in the Governess’s character years after the fateful events at Bly, Flora tricks the Governess into an interview in order to reveal the truth of the past and her brother’s untimely death. The cast also features Maggie McCarthy as the unwittingly complicit Mrs Grose, last seen at York Theatre Royal in Sandi Toksvig’s comedy Silver Lining. His orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles (Amy Dunn and Elliot Burton) resemble the sophisticated, spritely children of the novella in their apparently idyllic estate, and later double as the haunting spectres of now-dead, disgraced ex-employees Miss Jessel and Peter Quint. ![]() ![]() The Governess (Janet Dibley, Jackie the Musical) makes her way to a physically slanted Bly in 1840 following her meeting with the master, with all the worrying haste of the original, though with less obviously beguiling cause. Henry James’s classic ghost story is adapted into a compact two-hour stage play by Tim Luscombe and directed by Daniel Buckroyd, with design by Sara Perks. L-R Elliot Burton, Amy Dunn, Janet Dibley & Maggie McCarthy in Turn of the Screw ![]()
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