I might've mentioned this here before, but I don't remember. When I and friends were in late high school and early college, we formed our own "troupe" to put on plays just for the fun of it. We did things like The Miracle Worker, Arsenic and Old Lace (I played the character originally played on stage by Boris Karloff that was later performed, in a revival, by none other than Jonathan Frid), and we did the play version of The Turn of the Screw - The Innocents which was made into a classic motion picture starring Deborah Kerr. I worked in our public library at that time and it had a collection of films on reel, and one of them was The Innocents. This was long, long, long before such things as betamax, video, etc. I checked it out, we borrowed a projector from out local college, and watched it to find a basis for our staged version. Like with all the other plays we did, we used the funds we raised from a previous production, purchased or rented what we needed, and designed the whole atmosphere in grays, black-and-white, and used special lighting to cast long, dark shadows. Fortunately, two of our cast mates were teensy enough to play the two children. I got to play Quint. Because I had no lines, I actually had the most difficult role in which I was cast - I had to use "presence" to bring about an atmosphere of menace and fear.
Those were fun days and I miss them. Oh, and I got to play Helen Keller's father.
Gerard
