A Note From the Artistic Director Welcome to the world premiere of The Moors at Yale Repertory Theatre! Making her Yale Rep debut, playwright Jen Silverman is one of the most exciting emerging voices in the contemporary theatre. Her work has been seen already at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Playwrights Realm and Clubbed Thumb in New York. Part gothic thriller and part black comedy, The Moors is a delicious theatrical tale of seething tensions and repressed passions tormenting a pair of spinster sisters eking out a bleak, isolated life in the wild and inhospitable hills. Jen harnesses the trappings of Victorian storytelling—sublimated eroticism, exquisite melodrama, and societal ills exposed through the depiction of women in terrible living conditions—while wickedly subverting them for a contemporary audience. Her key partner in the enterprise is director Jackson Gay, whose Yale Rep credits include last season’s Elevada by Sheila Callaghan, as well as Rolin Jones’s The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, and These Paper Bullets!, which just concluded acclaimed runs at California’s Geffen Playhouse and Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company. I’m delighted that you are here to experience the richly imaginative and funny world that Jen, Jackson, and their remarkable company have created. I hope you will join us again soon for OBIE Award-winning Resident Director Evan Yionoulis’s production of Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s romantic adventure (March 25– April 16), and Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, Happy Days (April 29–May 21), featuring two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest. Coming up even sooner, at the end of February, our No Boundaries performance series continues with Escuela, written and directed by celebrated Chilean theatre artist Guillermo Calderón. As always, I welcome your thoughts about The Moors or any of your experiences at Yale Rep (my email address is james.bundy@yale.edu). Thank you for playing such an important role in the life of our theatre by joining us for this performance—it is a joy to share the work with you!
Sincerely,
James Bundy Artistic Director
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