Island Shakespeare Fest Presents Spooky Season Events! The Turn of the Screw and Tea & True Crime, a Living Podcast

Island Shakes presents "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James and adapted for the stage by Jeffrey Hatcher at various locations in Coupeville, Oak Harbor and Langley Oct. 23-28. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes

Two children and a governess alone in a remote English estate, but things that go bump in the night might be more than the wind. Who is in danger, the children or the governess, and what did their uncle know before he sent them there? The predator might be prey, but who is the mastermind? A tour de force by two actors, this adaption of Henry James’ story will send shivers down your spine!

Based on the 1898 provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this adaptation gives the famous story yet 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 one frightening question tortures the would-be heroine: Are the ghosts real, or are they the product of her own fevered imagination?

Ticket price: $40, $25, $15; Pay What You Will at the door, though we do expect to sell out.
Get tickets here: https://www.ticketsource.com/island-shakespeare-festival

Turn of the Screw Performances:

• Beaver Tales Coffee, Coupeville Wharf, 6 PM, Thurs. Oct.23
• The Tipsy Jellyfish, Oak Harbor, 7 PM, Friday, Oct. 24
• The Whidbey Playhouse, Oak Harbor, 7:30 PM, Sat. Oct. 25
• Kingfisher Books Salon, Coupeville, 5 PM, Sunday, Oct. 26
• Ott & Hunter Winery, Langley, 1 PM, Monday, Oct. 27
• Ott & Hunter Winery, Langley, 7 PM, Monday, Oct. 27
• Ott & Hunter Winery, Langley, 7 PM, Tuesday, Oct. 28

Companion Piece

Tea & True Crime: “Famous Women of Historic Crimes”

6 p.m. Wednesday, OCT. 29, Soundview Center in Langley

Join ISF for a special presentation that is sure to get your pulse racing and mind whirling. Podcast host and dark historian, Kim Douthit, will compare and contrast the infamous cases of Lizzie Borden, and Belle Gunness.

This one-night-only event is the ideal companion to The Turn of the Screw or enjoyed as a thought-provoking evening on its own!

Get tickets here: https://www.ticketsource.com/island-shakespeare-festival