One More 'Turn of the Screw' by D.L.Groover Afsaneh Aayani's set design for Catastrophic's world premiere adaptation of Henry James' powerful ghost story The Turn of the Screw (serialized in the American magazine Collier's Weekly, 1898) is wonderfully goth and creepy. From the get-go, the lobby décor is stuffed with...
Afsaneh Aayani, Karina Pal Montaño-Bowers and Adam J. Thompson in the Catastrophic Theatre production ofAfsaneh Aayani's set design for Catastrophic's world premiere adaptation of Henry James' powerful ghost story The Turn of the Screw is wonderfully goth and creepy.
If you're familiar with James' classic novella, you'll recognize the fine bones. A young virginal governess is hired by a rich London man-about-town to shepherd his orphaned nephew and niece, Miles and Flora, at his Essex country estate, Bly House, overlooked by kindly, if secretive, housekeeper Mrs. Grose. The uncle wants no correspondence from her at all. She is to assume total control.
Wily James, at the height of his literary powers, never lets on. His whole tale is shot through with ambiguity. Yes, ghosts. No, ghosts. Evil versus innocence, or innocence corrupted. Is the governess mad or rational? Is Bly House haunted? These beautiful conundrums are what has kept James' story so relevant through 125 years.
Ms. Fox dons a black Victorian gown and assumes the persona of the Governess. Barduc plays the Uncle and little Miles, represented by a puppet. Eva C., the spiritualist will play Flora, also a puppet. C. Payson Longley, the Society's musicologist , will accompany the action with his music . The discovery, or séance, if you will, will be videoed by the Mumlers , Meagan Smallwood, Ðat Peter Tȯn , and Clarity Welch.
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