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The Turn of the Screw review – OperaGlass Works make a brilliantly creepy virtue out of necessity

Last modified on Sat 30 Jan 2021 14.02 EST One of the many casualties of last year’s lockdown was OperaGlass Works’ new staging of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, co-produced by Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson, conducted by John Wilson, that had been scheduled for a run in late March 2020 at Wilton’s Music Hall in east London. Determined not to let six weeks of rehearsal go to waste, Cadell and Thompson decided to rework the production as a film in collaboration with Marquee TV, sharing the directing honours with Dominic Best. It’s by no means a simple visual record of a staging, as the whole of Wilton’s has become the set. The stalls, minus their chairs, now house the dilapidated facade of Bly, its garden and the banks of the lake where Francesca Chiejina’s Miss Jessel appears to Alys Mererid Roberts’s Flora. The foyers, twisting staircases and galleries, meanwhile, have become both Bly’s sombre interior and an image of the psychological labyrinth in which Rhian Lois’s anxious Governess gradually realises she is lost.