by Michele Markarian

‘The Moors’ – Written by Jen Silverman. Directed by Joe Juknievich. Lighting Design by Luke Lewkowicz; Costume Design by Daisy Walker.Presented by Entropy Theatre at the Plaza Black Box Theatre at the BCA, 539 Tremont Street, Boston through November 17.

“We don’t even hear our emotions half the time. We’re just filled with the sound of things getting lost,’ says Mastiff (Ryan Lemay) alone on the moors, where all of the action of Jen Silverman’s play takes place. Mastiff shares a manor, with an environment as inhospitable as the landscape that it sits on, with three other people – sisters Agatha (Kris Kim) and Huldey (Kayleigh Kane), and their servant, Marjory (Robin Abrahams) who is sometimes called Mallory, depending on the room she’s serving in. A governess, Emilie (Debbie Aboaba) has arrived at the house, at the epistolary request of the sisters’ brother, Bramwell, in order to take care of a small child. Emilie has fallen in love with the sensitive and sweet Bramwell through his letters, which, it turns out, he didn’t write – she was catfished by Agatha. Emilie transfers her devotion to Agatha, who has Bramwell – she’s not so nice, apparently – kept near death in the attic. Agatha would like Bramwell to impregnate Emilie, so that they might have a child.

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