The
Turn of the Screw is a Ghost story performed by two people. It is
the governess concerned in the story, telling the tail through
episodes of her diary being read during the performance. Suzy
Whitefield plays the Governess, whilst Adam Speers narrates the story as well as playing all the other characters
involved. The show was directed by Phil Buck.
A
man hires a young ministers daughter as governess to his two young
wards, on the surprising condition that he is not to be contacted
about them at all!
She falls in love with them at first site and fanaticizes
about the family unit she could form with the children and their
uncle, after all it happens in books.
Her
delusions are shattered when she discovers their x-governess and
her manservant lover, who both died in separate tragic accidents,
are haunting the children.
Her love for and protection of the children is not enough
to prevent another tragic death and she then moves from position
to position only caring for those with one boy and one girl in the
family.
This
chilling tail is well told and left me looking carefully over my
shoulder for the rest of the night.
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