The Turn of the Screw
A world premiere by Blackeyed Theatre and Arcola Theatre, based on the seminal ghost story by Henry James.
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The Stage on Blackeyed Theatre
England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two seemingly angelic children, begins what appears to be an idyllic new life. Yet there is something about the children that hints at a darker presence.
Desperate to protect them from what she believes to be malevolent spirits, she finds herself descending into a world of ambiguity, leading to one far-reaching question; are the ghosts real… or a projection of something far more terrifying?
A masterwork of psychological suspense and the inspiration for Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, The Turn of the Screw is brought to life in this brand-new stage adaptation by Olivier Award-winning playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, combining powerful performances, illusion and stylish theatricality.
Venue
A world premiere by
Blackeyed Theatre and Arcola Theatre
Based on the seminal ghost story by
Henry James
Written by
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Directed by
Nicky Allpress
Price
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Running Time
Approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes including an interval
Age Guidance
12+
Cast
Toby Benyon
Toby trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts drama school. He is a half Welsh, Brighton born actor. While at Mountview he met Nicky Allpress and has since worked with her on Marseille (Away) which was performed at the Brighton and Camden fringe and received high acclaim. He’s excited to be working with Nicky again on this production.
Turn of the Screw marks Toby’s professional stage debut.
Jim Fish
Theatre credits include: the title role in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End), Great Expectations (Mercury Colchester), The Lightkeepers (Amazing Musicals), The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC), 4:48 Psychosis, Two, Gold Dust (Deafinitely Theatre), Adventures in Wonderland (Teatro Vivo), Purposeless Movements (Birds of Paradise), The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse), Master Juba (Fittings Multimedia), Mikado (Krazy Kat), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CBSO), Scrooge, Jack O’Kent (D-Live), The Perfect Spot (Cartoon Theatre), The Loves of Venus and Mars (The Weaver Ensemble), Fire in the Fields (Theatre and Beyond), Transmissions (Birmingham Rep), La Cage Aux Folles (Tour).
TV credits include: Doctors and A Comedy Roast.
Film credits include: The Brits are Coming and The End.
Kathleen McAuley Irvine
Kathleen is a Glaswegian actress based in London. She has just completed her training at LAMDA on the BA (Hons) Professional Acting Course.
Credits whilst training include: Vassa in Vassa by Maxim Gorky, Puck / Snug in A Dream by Chris Bush, Rose in Borders of Paradise by Sharman Macdonald and Nina in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov.
Further credits include: Crisis: A Rallying Cry (Traverse Theatre)
Janita Mikkola
Janita has recently graduated from LAMDA.
Credits whilst training include Natalya in Vassa, Peter/Emily in Earthquakes in London, Judy in Dead Dog in A Suitcase (And Other Love Songs), Frances in Bloodline (Short film) and Thea/Mrs Bergmann in Spring Awakening.
This is Janita’s professional debut.
Katy Slater
Theatre credits: Paulina in The Winter’s Tale with Will & Co.’s Bard in the Bookshop, Radiant Vermin (Protocol Theatre) and Market Boy (Union Theatre).
New writing: Bearable Sequence (Have It Productions), Sherica (Shred Productions), and Islanders (Farnes Productions).
Screen credits: the TV series Churails, as well as independent short films that have screened at national and international festivals.
Comedy: sketch podcast The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show (British Comedy Guide/Resonance FM) and The Milligan Papers (UK Tour).
Writer/performer solo shows: Toast (EdFringe/Prague Fringe) and Stacking (EdFringe).
Amy Tara
Amy’s theatre work includes her Shakespeare debut as Ophelia in Hamlet in summer 2025, alongside Arrietty Clock in The Borrowers. She appears in the feature film Assassins Guild, now streaming on Amazon Prime, and stars in Groupchat, which made its US premiere in 2025 and earned Amy Best Actress at the British Horror Film Festival. She also spent time filming in California in 2024. The Turn of the Screw marks her second national tour, following her lead role in Indigo Giant.
Creative Team
Writer
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Morgan was commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe to write Emilia which became a hit show in summer 2018 before transferring to the West End in 2019, winning three Olivier awards including Best Entertainment or Comedy Play. Her feature adaptation of her play The Wasp, starring Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer and directed by Guillem Morales, was released in 2024 following a showing at the Tribeca Festival.
Previous stage credits include: Dracula (Lyric Hammersmith), Belongings (shortlisted for the Charles Wintour Award), The Wasp (Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios), Typical Girls (Sheffield Crucible) and Mum (Plymouth Theatre Royal and Soho Theatre). She also co-wrote the book for new musical Cake, which was performed in London in 2023 and 2024 following an initial tour in 2022.
Director
Nicky Allpress
Nicky Allpress
Nicky is an award-winning director whose recent revival of The Shape of Things at Park Theatre was a finalist for the What’s On Stage Award for Best Production (Off-West End). A finalist in the 2024 Sir Peter Hall Directors Award and a member of the Young Vic Genesis and Stage Directors UK programmes, she is also developing a new stage comedy with Sally Phillips, which received its first public reading in November, and is currently Associate Director to Katy Rudd on The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, about to open at the Haymarket West End.
Other directing credits include: Jobsworth The Walworth Farce and Romeo & Juliet (Southwark Playhouse) and the 60th anniversary tour of Oh What A Lovely War (Blackeyed Theatre), and as staff director My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre).
Lighting Designer
Oliver McNally
Oliver McNally
Oliver is a London-based Lighting designer and Junior Designer at Woodroffe Bassett Design. Oliver studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he gained a degree specialising in Lighting Design.
Design credits include:
Anne of Green Gables (Sadler Well’s 2026 ); NEZHA (Shaw Theatre 2026); Jobs Worth (Park Theatre 2025); Love Quirks (The Other Palace 2025); Storms Maybe Snow (Tour 2025); Daughter of Time (Charing Cross Theatre 2025); Sisyphean Quick Fix (Riverside Studios 2025); Yes, We’re Related (Other Palace 2024, Fringe 2025 ); Karen (Other Palace 2025, Fringe 2024); Bollywood Odyssey (Trafalgar Theatres) We’ll Have Nun of It (London Transfer 2024); Karen (Birmingham & London 2024); The Nutcracker (Turbine Theatre); We’ll Have Nun of It (Fringe 2023); Misfortune (London); To Have and To Hold (London); Ibiza Orchestra (McEwan Hall); Foils Arms & Hog (Fringe 2022); 9 T0 5 The Musical (AGOS Studio); Cinderella the Musical R&H (New Athenaeum Theatre); The Lynching (Scottish Tour); Dose of Blushes The Musical (Tour); Paddy a New Musical (Shed).
Associate/Assistant Credits:
Paisley Halloween (WBD) Indigo (Curve Theatre 2025); Oor Wulllie (Dundee Rep 2024); South Pacific (West End + UK Tour 2022); SIX The Musical (Hampton Court Place 2022).
Set and Costume Designer
Matthew Cassar
Matthew Cassar
Matthew Cassar is a London-based set and costume designer. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and works in theatres internationally across musicals, live performances and plays. In addition to his creative work, Matthew is an associate designer at Morgan Large Design Studio.
CREDITS: Amelie, Into The Woods, Dear Evan Hansen, Alibaba The Panto, Rapunzel A Tangled Panto, Beauty and the Beast Pantomime (Teatru Manoel, Malta); Jobsworth (Park Theatre, UK); Catastrophe Bay (Bristol Old Vic, UK); Sisyphean Quick Fix (Riverside Studios, UK); Picnic at Hanging Rock (The Wardrobe Theatre, UK).
ASSOCIATE/ASSISTING CREDITS: Maria Theresia (Ronacher Theatre, Vienna); Rudolf – The Last Kiss (Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein, Germany); Sunset Boulevard (Sydney Opera House/Melbourne Princess, Australia); Wicked (Dubai Opera House/European and Middle East Tour/São Paulo Santander, Brazil); Sister Act (Dominion Theatre/Australian Tour/German Tour/Holland/UK Tour); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); Midnight (Sadler’s Wells, UK); This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre, UK); The Invention of Love (Hampstead Theatre, UK); Disney’s Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park, UK); Single White Female (UK Tour); Rock and Roll Man (UK Tour); Filumena (UK Tour); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour); Frank and Percy (The Other Palace / Windsor Theatre Royal, UK).
Sound Designer
Hattie North
Hattie North
Hattie is a Sound Designer and Composer from Leeds.
Recent work includes: Sum of Our Parts (Sweet Beef Theatre), Crying Shame (Stanley Arts, Pleasance), Perfect Show For Rachel (UK Tour), The Elmer Adventure (Tall Stories), SKYE: A Thriller (Summerhall), Henry V (Insane Root), Ms Holmes and Ms Watson (Arcola Theatre).
Associate work includes: Midsummer Nights Dream (Headlong), Twelfth Night (Theatre Clwyd), Our Cosmic Dust (Park Theatre), In the Land of Eagles (Pleasance), (the) Woman (Park Theatre).
Illusionist
Wayne Fox
Wayne Fox
Wayne Fox is a London-based magic and illusion consultant specialising in the design and integration of theatrical magic for stage productions, live performance, and television.
A Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star and an Examiner for The Magic Circle, Wayne has spent decades creating original illusion methods and stage effects in collaboration with directors, producers, and performers. His theatre consultancy includes illusion design for pantomime productions such as Cinderella and Peter Pan, as well as magical staging for Maddie at the Arcola Theatre. Wayne also served as consultant on James Phelan’s show Dreamer, developed at Harlow Playhouse and later performed at The Magic Circle as part of its wider tour.
Beyond theatre, he has created bespoke effects for television magician Dynamo and has designed magical presentations for major brands including Nissan (across Mill Hill, Camden, and Waltham Abbey) and Mercedes-Benz through UK and international events. Known for combining psychological misdirection with practical, repeatable stage-safe solutions, Wayne works closely with creative teams to deliver impossible moments that serve story, character and spectacle.
Intimacy and Movement Director
Mandy Gordon
Mandy Gordon
Mandy Gordon is a London-based movement and intimacy director and actor coach with notable credits across theatre, contemporary performance and commercial production. She collaborates closely with directors and creative teams to shape daring, physically nuanced work for major venues and performance spaces. Her practice foregrounds ensemble cohesion, authentic character embodiment and performer wellbeing, making her a trusted specialist in local and international contexts.
Assistant Director
Emma Wilkinson
Emma Wilkinson
Emma is a director with a particular interest in urgent drama with heart. Her part-devised piece, THE GREATER GOOD COMPANY, has its roots in real-life stories of political resistance and runs at the Hope Theatre this Autumn. Directing credits include: Casualty (BBC, S34E30), Cymbeline (Waterloo East), The Merchant of Venice (UK/Japan touring) and Don Giovanni (West Road Concert Hall). Emma was an Assistant Script Editor on One Day (Netflix) and reads on the Papatango and Bruntwood Playwriting Prizes. She is an Immersive Arts grant recipient, a Directors UK member, a keen amateur carpenter and a butler to two large cats.