The Turn of the Screw – review

Theatre at the Mill, NewtownabbeyNorthern Ireland Opera begins its second year with a production of Britten's greatest chamber opera. If The Turn of the Screw seems a perfectly achieved unity, without musical or dramatic loose ends (though with plenty of psychological ones), it is actually a rather prescriptive work to put on stage. So much of the director's work is done already in Myfanwy Piper's libretto and Britten's music that options are limited; it's as rare to encounter a really inadequat...

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