Irene Kelleher trod the boards of The Village Arts Centre in September of this year in a one-woman play entitled 'Mrs Shakespeare' by Ian Wild which she has since featured off-Broadway in the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. We are happy to record that she is back again in Kilworth on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th November,  this time in a thrilling ghost that also stars Mark Griffin. This staging of ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ will be the only Cork performance, and it comes with the masterful direction of Killian Collins.

'The Turn Of The Screw', an adaptation by Jeffrey Archer from the story by Henry James, is based on the provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality. This adaptation however, gives the famous story yet another twist of its own.

It tells of 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 spectres 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?

Tickets are €15/12 and are now avaialble from The Avondhu office, Fermoy (025-32227), Cotter's Bar, Kilworth (025-27109 after 5pm), Hyland's Bookshop, Mitchelstown (025-24528) or call 087-6492514.

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