Innocence, you have corrupted me

Anyone who has the option of getting tickets for the two remaining performances of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw by the Boston Lyric Opera, I strongly recommend you do so. It's stunning. I have loved the opera for years, but I think this production may be the best thing I've seen onstage since the Actors' Shakespeare Project did The Duchess of Malfi; it is a six-person rite enacted in the rigorous drag of a nightmare and all the places where a less intelligent version might have fallen into answers on one side or the other, this one held the ambiguities until the last twist. The video projections were the only aspect that did not really work for me (although I appreciated their attempt to replicate visually the sense of trapped and repeating time which the twelve-tone theme and its fifteen variations build into each scene: the past has not stopped happening and there is nowhere within the music to go), but I found it easy to tune them out and focus on the actors, who were excellent. Emily Pulley as the Governess, Vale Rideout as Peter Quint, Aidan Gent as Miles. Will discuss at length in comments if anyone's interested, but right now I have to sleep. Thank you, thomasfreund. I'm calling the box office tomorrow to find out if they sell T-shirts.