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At Wilton’s Music Hall, a ghost light for Britten’s ghost story

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“we brush past barley-sugar twisted pillars and rusty pipes, clamber the rickety staircases”
Reviewed at Wilton's Music Hall, London on 26 January 2021
Britten, The Turn of the Screw
OperaGlass Works
John Wilson, Conductor
Selina Cadell, Director
Tom Piper, Set Designer
Rosalind Ebbutt, Costume Designer
Lewis Hannaby, Lighting Designer
Eliza Thompson, Director
Dominic Best, Co-director
Robert Murray, Peter Quint, The Prologue
Rhian Lois, Governess
Gweneth-Ann Rand, Mrs Grose
Francesca Chiejina, Miss Jessel
Leo Jemison, Miles
Alys Mererid Roberts, Flora
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