The Moors

By Jen Silverman
Originally produced at Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT
January 29 - February 20, 2016

About the Premiere Production:

(Blair Underwood and De’Adre Aziza. Photo: Charles Erickson.)

The bleak moors of England. The bleakest. Two spinster sisters—one desperately unhappy, the other resolutely miserable—live with their elder brother and their mastiff in a gloomy, old mansion. When a governess is summoned to their isolated home, teeming with secrets and desires, what price might they pay for love? Inspired (perhaps) by certain 19th-century gothic romances, and the sisters who wrote them, Jen Silverman’s The Moors courses with a distinctly contemporary, darkly comic sensibility.

Cast: Jeff Biehl, Hannah Cabell, Birgit Huppuch, Jessica Love, Kelly McAndrew, and Miriam Silverman.

Director: Jackson Gay
Scenic Design: Alexander Woodward
Costume Design: Fabian Fidel Aguilar
Lighting Design: Andrew F. Griffin
Sound Design and Original Music: Daniel Kluger
Fight Director: Rick Sordelet
Dramaturg: Maria Inês Marques
Stage Mananger: Avery Trunko
Casting Director: Tara Rubin Casting

News:
• "‘The Moors’ at Yale Rep: Echoes of Bronte, with talking Hen & Mastiff," New Haven Register, January 31, 2016
• "Fast-Rising Playwright Jen Silverman's 'The Moors' At Yale Rep," Hartford Courant, January 29, 2016