The one thing THE CATASTROPHIC THEATRE takes deadly seriously is their brand as Houston’s most experimental theater. And if you need proof, simply attend a performance of their multimedia reinvention of THE TURN OF THE SCREW. Cinema, puppets, props, and psychic investigators all collide as they make their own version of 1898’s Henry James novella.
Podcast Interview begins at 33:05. “We’re having these really large cultural conversations about simultaneity, simultaneities of truth. Whose truth is the truth? Where do we get our truth? What does that say about how reliable it is, etc. So that’s kind of why I was interested in doing it now. It felt like an interesting
When Henry James wrote his gothic horror story The Turn of the Screw in 1898, there was no multimedia available to extend the tale beyond its novella form. But now there is and creative director and multimedia designer Adam J. Thompson, working with Catastrophic’s Afsaneh Aayani, have come up with a new way to tell