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Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly

  • Don Nigro
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1900-1910
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573696374

Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1900-1910
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. 

These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong, troubled, and deeply infatuated with the master. As Quint and Miss Jessel's affair develops, the rivalry between servant and master builds to a frightening and haunting climax.

Premiere Production: Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly was first produced at Theatre X in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in March and April 2000. It was directed by John Kishline. In June and July 2001, the play was produced at The People’s Light And Theatre Company in Malvern, Pennsylvania, directed by Peter De Laurier. The play was produced by Random Arts, Inc. at Theatre 22 in its New York City Premiere in April 2002, directed by Nicole Lerario.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

THE MASTER OF BLY - a man in his thirties
PETER QUINT - his valet, thirties
MISS JESSEL - a woman in her twenties

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Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Quint is brilliant, sardonic and angry, a man of great abilities trapped by birth into a subservient role he hates. Miss Jessel is beautiful, headstrong, troubled, and deeply infatuated with the master. As Quint and Miss Jessel's affair develops, the rivalry between servant and master builds to a frightening and haunting climax.

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