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The Turn of the Screw " review by Michael Billington

Almeida, LondonYou can see Henry James's masterly, much-adapted short novel either as a classic ghost story or as a study in sexual hysteria. But Rebecca Lenkiewicz's overheated new version, aided by Lindsay Posner's production, both hams up the horror and hints heavily at a Freudian vision. The result, provoking more titters than thrills, comes perilously close to the absurd.The magic of James's story, showing a gov…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PM on January 25, 2013

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