The Moors in Houston

The Moors are coming to Houston, TX:

Mildred's Umbrella presents
The Moors
by Jen Silverman
Directed by Jennifer Decker
August 30-September 15, 2018
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00pm
Matinee Sunday, September 9 at 3:00pm
Industry Night Monday, September 10 at 8:00pm
Chelsea Market Theater: 4617 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006

On the bleak moors of Yorkshire, two spinster sisters, an unassuming governess, and a mischievous maid make plays for love and power in a world that limits them all. Who will be left standing at the end? Can they truly shake off their position and role? Can a mastiff love a moor-hen?
Set on the bleak Yorkshire Moors of northern England, The Moors centers on two spinster sisters living alone in a manor house with their maid and mastiff. The introduction of a governess and a crash-landing moor-hen, prompts explorations of vi
sibility, isolation and desire among the manor’s residents and the impact of a place both dangerous and beautiful on the human psyche.
The Moors received praise from The New York Times on its world premiere production at Yale Repertory: “’The Moors,’ rolls out like the stuff of dreams, with telling passages heightened by surrealistic flights of fancy — including that mastiff and hen in an archetypally pleasing, you-really-ought-to-see-this parable.”
“I’ve always been fascinated with the Brontë sisters and their work,” said director and MU Artistic Director Jennifer Decker. “Their work is full of barely hidden rage directed at the patriarchy…from a time when women had no voice. They were feminists before it was cool. The isolation with which they lived only served to fuel their imaginations to write intriguing literature that is still widely read almost 200 years later. This play is not a biography of their lives, but an absurd celebration of their genius. I read the first scene and knew it was made for Mildred’s Umbrella.”