Theatre / 50 min / £7(£6) / 14+
Showing @ Zoo Southside, 3-27 Aug (not 13), 12.45
Henry James can be notoriously hard-going, so it’s a brave move to take on his work, and an impressive one for a young theatre company to succeed in such a task. HookHitch create an atmosphere of mounting suspense as the idealistic young governess fights to protect her charges from a vague threat that is purposely left ambiguous. The children Flora and Miles are portrayed by puppets, luminously pale in their metaphoric purity. Overlapping dialogue and shifting scenes blur the line between what is real and what is merely perceived, and a sparse set is employed to great effect. The action wisely hints at the subtext without ever spelling it out, leaving audiences to draw their own conclusions about this chilling tale of innocence corrupted.
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