THE 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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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.
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2 hours 10 minutes including interval
Ailish Tynan (Governess), Gweneth Ann Rand (Mrs Grose), Eleanor Dennis (Miss Jessel), Robert Murray (Peter Quint) and Alan Oke (Prologue)
Language: Sung in English with the words displayed above the stage (Surtitles)
Access Performances:
Signed – Sunday 13th October 2024 at 2:30pm
Age Guidance: No Under 5s – unless specifically stated otherwise. Children under the age of 16 must be seated with an adult/someone over 18. The adult cannot be sitting separately.
Our cloakroom fee is £2 per item, whether it’s a bag or a coat. We can accommodate small bags, coats, and other small items. We class a small bag as standard rucksack size or smaller or a standard handbag. Our cloakroom opens 75 minutes before the performance. It remains open for 30 minutes following the show
Latecomers – if you are late, you will be able to view the performance on a TV monitor whilst our staff wait for an appropriate point in the performance to allow you to enter the auditorium and take your seat. Our staff will try to do this as early as they can within the performance but this isn’t always possible and in some cases you may be asked to wait until the interval.
