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The Turn of the Screw

"The Granddaddy of all ghost stories."

WRVA-FM

  • Full Length Play
  • Mystery/Thriller
  • 100 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
Genuine chills are provided in this tale of a governess, left in charge of a boy and a girl at a lonely estate, who begins to suspect that the ghosts of two former servants have hideous designs upon the children.

But the governess is the only one who can see the ghosts and to complicate matters further, the children may know more than they're telling. If the governess is right, the children are in terrible peril, but if she's wrong, she herself might be driving them mad. With every twist in the plot (or turn of the screw) the tension increases until something -- or someone -- must snap.

REVIEWS:

"The granddaddy of all ghost stories."

 WRVA-FM

"EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT EXCITING."

 Richmond Times-Dispatch

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Notes: Includes 1 boy, 1 girl.

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Genuine chills are provided in this tale of a governess, left in charge of a boy and a girl at a lonely estate, who begins to suspect that the ghosts of two former servants have hideous designs upon the children. But the governess is the only one who can see the ghosts'and to complicate matters further, the children may know more than they're telling. If the governess is right, the children are in terrible peril, but if she's wrong, she herself might be driving them mad. With every twist in the plot (or turn of the screw) the tension increases until something'or someone'must snap. Minimal set.

$19.95