The Moors in Massachussetts

A new production of Jen Silverman's The Moors opens today, February 22 in Northampton, Massachusetts:

The Moors
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Isabelle Brown
February 22, 23, 28, March 1, 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre
Smith College
Northampton, MA

The Valley Advocate has further information:

Jen Silverman’s whimsical dark comedy The Moors, at Smith College Feb. 22-March 2, takes place in Wuthering Heights country, 1840s Yorkshire. There, two spinster sisters lead lives of quiet desperation in the company of a peculiar governess, a mastiff and a moorhen. (The dog and bird are performed by humans, everyone costumed by Cora Grant.)
The playwright has said that she likes “to use a genre as a container, and then within the safety of that container make it unsafe, blow it up, make it present-tense and dangerous.” The director, Smith senior Isabelle Brown, seconds that appraisal, adding that she finds the play “funny, mysterious, and sometimes outright bizarre.”
Within its Victorian-era themes of “forbidden love and betrayal,” Brown says the piece “feels very contemporary. I was moved by how beautifully it touches on the most basic human needs, such as the need to feel seen and loved. It also deals with themes of isolation and loss, which are emphasized through the setting – a lonely mansion in the middle of the foggy, elusive moors.” (Chris Rohmann)