by Jen Silverman

October 6 - October 28, 2023
- Evening Curtain: 7:30PM
- Matinee Curtain: 2:00PM

Start your Halloween festivities early and bring the whole family to this spooky, dark comedy!

A governess is lured to a remote corner of the Yorkshire moors under the pretense that she cares for a newborn. She discovers only two juxtaposed sisters, a mysterious typhus maid with identity issues, an old hound, and a moorhen, the only inhabitants of a house that creaks with creepy mysteries. Inspired by the letters of Charlotte Brontë, this black comedy written by Jen Silverman is an homage to the Brontës and a gothic pastiche in one.

About the Playwright:
Jen Silverman is a playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter. Silverman’s plays include Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, MCC, Southwark Playhouse London); The Moors (Yale Rep, Playwrights Realm); The Roommate (Humana Festival, Williamstown, Steppenwolf, South Coast, Long Wharf) and Witch (Writer’s Theatre, Geffen, Huntington).

Silverman's plays have been produced internationally in Australia, the UK, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain, and elsewhere. She is the author of the debut novel We Play Ourselves and the story collection The Island Dwellers (Random House) and the poetry chapbook Bath, selected by Traci Brimhall for Driftwood Press. Additional work has appeared in Vogue, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, the Yale Review and elsewhere. She wrote The Miranda Obsession as a narrative podcast for Audible/ Vice, starring Rachel Brosnahan.

Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and an Affiliated Artist with New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Space on Ryder Farm, and the Playwrights Center. Honors: The Helen Merrill Award, the Yale Drama Series Award, the Lilly Award, Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Silverman is a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (prose) and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow (theatre). Silverman also writes for TV and film. Education: Brown, Iowa, Juilliard.

ONLINE TICKET PRICING *
Children (12 and under): $16.00
Senior (65+) / Student / Group: $26.00
General Admission: $32.00

*walk-up prices are an additional $4.00 per ticket

RUNNING TIME

1 hour and 45 minutes with one 15 minute intermissions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

REFUND/EXCHANGE POLICY

Exchange Policy: Refunds/exchanges are allowed up to 24 hours prior to booked performance. Cancellations within 24 hours and no-shows will be processed as a tax deductible donation to MCT.

Age Range: Suggested Ages

Late Seating Policy: There will be no late seating. Please plan to arrive early.

Additional Info:

This venue offers accessible parking

This venue is a wheelchair accessible venue

This venue offers wheelchair accessible seating