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Article: Acadia's "Turn of the Screw" a good fit with soggy weather
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- July 10, 2009
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A ghost story doesn't often provide fuel for literary debate
unless, of course, it was written by Henry James. Jeffrey Hatcher's
recent adaptation of the 1898 novella, "Turn of the Screw," won't
end the argument over whether James' governess actually saw
apparitions or if she imagined them.
That discussion won't matter to theatergoers who see Acadia
Repertory Theatre's unsettling production of "The Turn of the
Screw." The Somesville company's production will send them out into
the damp night fog seeing ghostly figures on the side of the road
and wondering whether they are real or just a little leftover
theatrical magic.
Hatcher is a Minneapolis-based playwright who adapted "Tuesdays
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