Britten: The Turn of the Screw - DVD

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Britten: The Turn of the Screw (OAF4014D)<br /> <br /> Eilene Hannan; Margaret Haggart; Anson Austin; Wendy Dixon; West Australian Symphony Orchestra; David Stanhope<br /> <br /> Benjamin Britten's haunting adaptation of Henry James' classic ghost story about a governess put in charge of two mysteriously possessed orphaned children. The tension spirals throughout this masterpiece of<br /> psychological terror. As the screw is tightened, the nerves of the governess are strained to breaking point.<br /> <br /> "The set design by Elijah Moshinsky invokes the images of this nocturnal other-worldliness with sheer style...Indeed this production is a masterpiece of design and lighting." (The West Australian)