Video Diary: Lexine Lee The Turn of The Screw at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
In a Theatre Channel exclusive video diary, Lexine Lee takes us behind the scenes of the The Turn of The Screw at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch.
Bly, Essex. Angelic 9 year-old Flora and precocious 12 year-old Miles are the picture of innocence, rescuing injured birds and playing make-believe by the shady lake. But, as a new governess arrives at the manor to take care of them, disturbing secrets emerge from beneath the undulating waters. Questioning the truth behind the children’s stories, the governess finds it increasingly hard to tell reality from her nightmares – until she is forced to take action. Did you really see her? Or was it just a trick of the light?
Cast includes James Akka who recently received rave reviews for his solo show (Sorry (I Broke Your Arms and Legs), at Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Michael Joel Bartelle (Much Ado about Nothing, RSC; Magic, The Lion and Unicorn Theatre; The Throne, Charing Cross Theatre); Siubhan Harrison (The School of Scandal, RSC; The Ocean at the End of The Lane, National Theatre; Guys and Dolls, West End); Lexine Lee (Hamlet , Southwark Playhouse; I Know What You Awoke Last Spring, R&D National Youth Theatre; The Dickens Girls, New Wolsey Theatre); and Kristin McIlquham (Kerry Jackson, National Theatre; Wake Up People, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch).
The Turn of the Screw is a gothic horror written in 1898 by Henry James which has been used as inspiration for West End classic The Woman in Black, hit horror movies The Others and The Innocents and was recently adapted for Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor. It is adapted for the stage by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
