OPEN AUDITIONS for “The Turn of the Screw”
by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Laurel Bryant
Monday February 3rd at 7pm
Tuesday February 4th at 7pm
Auditions and performances at
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre's
River Street Playhouse
56 River Street, Chagrin Falls
Actors should come prepared with a short dramatic monologue and to read from the script
Production Dates: May 1st - May 17th, 2020.
First rehearsal will be Monday March 30th.
The Woman - (20's - 30's) - English Governess
The Man (20 - 30's) - Must seamlessly play the Narrator, The Uncle, Mrs. Grose (the housekeeper), and Miles (an 11 year old boy)
Based on the provocative Henry James' 1898 novella, Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation gives this psychological thriller another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. But she is not their first governess. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself found dead soon after, under mysterious circumstances. Now the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children, and she must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But are these ghosts real, or are they the product of her own fevered imagination? Filled with Suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this piece is an actors dream!