The Innocents

Melodrama adapted from Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw

Characters: 1 male, 3 female, 1 boy and 1 girl aged ten to thirteen.

A story of unspeakable horror, it begins when a young governess arrives at an English estate to oversee two precocious, orphaned youngsters. There’s also a motherly cook. But these four aren’t alone they’re haunted by fears and phantoms and by ghastly shadows. The governess and cook are terrified, but the children are possessed by the spirits and w