The Turn of the Screw
From: Friday, 1st July 2011
To: Thursday, 8 September 2011
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Based upon Henry James' ghost tale. A young governess is despatched to the country to take charge of two small children by their distant uncle. Her charges appear to be the very picture of "deep sweet serenity" but there are sinister forces at work and her idyll is soon to be destroyed by terror.
Our Review:
22 July 2011
Edward Dick’s production of The Turn of the Screw for OperaUpClose is everything that small-scale opera should be: a tightly-controlled and brilliantly thought-through concept that allows us to see and hear a great work in a totally new light. Britten’s spooky masterpiece doesn’t necessarily need the cobwebs blown from it but Dick’s modern dress interpretation serves up new ideas right to the end while ratcheting up the tension to an almost unbearable degree.
The singing’s pretty good too. Presided over by Laura Casey’s dysfunctional Mrs Grose, a gallumphing big baby, this Bly House is a madhouse, with Katie Bird’s superb Governess beginning as a crumpled patient to David Menezes’s Prologue/psychiatrist. Her behaviour is erratic as soon as she arrives to tutor the two children (Eleanor Burke and Samuel Woof on the night I attended, both astonishingly good). She strangely caress...
Creative
Benjamin Britten (Music)
Myfanwy Piper (Lyrics)
Adam Spreadbury-Maher (Producer)
Dominic Haddock (Producer)
Kate Mara (for OperaUpClose) (Producer)
Edward Dick (Director)
David Eaton (Musical Director)
Signe Beckmann (Design)
Signe Beckmann (Company)
Richard Bleasdale (projection) (Design)
Danny McGrath (movement) (Director)
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