The Moors
by Jen Silverman
Directed by AJ Baldwin
March 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, April 1, 2, 3, 2027
NEW TIME: All performances at 7:30 PM
The Moors
Out on the fog-drenched moors, two sisters wait. They have been waiting a very long time.
In the bleak and savage moors, there live two sisters. The eldest commands the house, leaving the youngest trapped in her shadow. But when a governess arrives, lies are revealed and loyalties shift — until someone reaches her breaking point.
The governess has come at the invitation of the house’s master — a man of sensitivity and romantic letters who has captured her heart entirely. There is only one problem: he’s nowhere to be found. What she discovers instead is a household teeming with secrets, a maid who answers to different names in different rooms, a dog conducting his own quietly philosophical interior life, and two sisters whose hunger for love and power has curdled into something far more dangerous.
Inspired by the lives and works of the Brontë sisters — Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, the fog, the obsession, the barely-contained wildness of it all — Jen Silverman’s The Moors gleefully seizes those beloved Victorian tropes and twists them into something entirely its own. It is a dark comedy, a deranged family drama, a tender love story, a delicious Victorian melodrama, and a gothic feminist thriller all in one.
Silverman herself insists this is not a period piece — it’s a play about this exact moment in time. Drop the corsets and the candlelight if you like. The loneliness, the longing, and the danger are entirely contemporary.
“Bizarre and raunchy, subversive and disturbing, and deliciously funny all at once.” — Sydney Morning Herald
“Drop the Brontë sisters in ‘The Twilight Zone,’ stir in a little Samuel Beckett, and you might approximate Jen Silverman’s dark comedy.” — Renaissance Theaterworks
“A kinky, brilliant homage… gothic spoof, fen-sucked fabulism, and queer bodice-ripper.” — Sydney Morning Herald
If you’ve ever loved a story about women trapped by their circumstances — and what happens when they refuse to stay that way — The Moors is for you.
Cast/Crew List:
- CAST (in order of appearance):
- TBA
- PRODUCTION TEAM
- Corinne Felt – Costumes
- Faith Von Handorf – Props