The Moors

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There is great imagination and intrigue here, and it is eminently entertaining. - The Guardian

Backdropped by the bleak English moors, two sisters (and their dog) live a dreary existence, as they dream of forbidden love and power. So, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen arrive at their manor house, the two see a chance to claim what they've always wanted... no matter how destructive.

A loving pastiche of the gothic genre, Jen Silverman echoes and channels the Bront sisters in this irreverent celebration, that is equal parts brutal, lusty, and deranged.

A macabre, queer thriller, The Moors is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Christine Scarfuto.

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There is great imagination and intrigue here, and it is eminently entertaining. * The Guardian *

Author Bio

Jen Silverman (they/them) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: Spain; Highway Patrol; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; The Moors; Witch, and The Roommate (upcoming on Broadway at the Booth Theatre). Their plays have been produced off-Broadway (Second Stage Theatre, MCC Theater, The Playwrights Realm), across the US (Steppenwolf, The Goodman, The Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Writers Theatre etc), and internationally in Australia, the UK, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, and elsewhere. Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. Honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim.