London Coliseum
St Martin's Ln, Charing Cross, London WC2N 4ES
Venue informationTHE TURN OF THE SCREW is playing for a limited time at London Coliseum as part of English National Opera’s 2024-2025 season.
With its dark, evocative score, Britten’s THE TURN OF THE SCREW is one of the most unnerving of all operas. Told in flashback from a psychiatric ward, a young governess is terrorised by unseen forces in a remote country house. The setting is Brontëesque, but the menace is pure Hitchcock.
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What is The Turn of the Screw about?
A young, inexperienced governess is invited to a bleak country house, home to two orphaned children, both deeply troubled, possibly possessed. Her anxiety mounts. There are strangled cries in the night, a figure on the tower, a face at the window. But are they just figments of her imagination, or malign presences threatening the charges in her care? She can’t be sure – and nor can we – as the tension builds towards a nerve-shredding climax.
Ticket Information
Tickets available for performances from Friday 11th October – Thursday 31st October 2024
Running Time
2 hours 10 minutes including interval
Cast & Creatives
Duncan Ward (Conductor ex 29 & 31 Oct), Charlotte Corderoy (Conductor 29 & 31 Oct), Isabella Bywater (Director & Designer), Paul Anderson (Lighting Designer), Jon Driscoll (Video Designer) and Myfanwy Pipper (Librettist)
Ailish Tynan (Governess), Gweneth Ann Rand (Mrs Grose), Eleanor Dennis (Miss Jessel), Robert Murray (Peter Quint) and Alan Oke (Prologue)
Age Guidance: 12+
Language: Sung in English with the words displayed above the stage (Surtitles)
Access Performances:
Signed – Sunday 13th October 2024 at 2:30pm
