You on the Moors Now
Written by Jaclyn Backhaus
Conceived and Directed by John Kurzynowski
Presented 13 – 28 February 2015 at HERE Arts Center (NYC)
Published by Dramatists Play Service
You on the Moors Now is a sprawling theatrical examination of four well-known literary heroines of the 19th-century and their shocking rejection of the men who so ardently loved them. What results is a confluence of love, anger, grief, haunting, bloody battles and single tears shed by an ensemble of actors struggling to reconcile the romantic confines of the past with their own contemporary ideas of courtship. You on the Moors Now takes everything you’ve ever learned about love, gleaned from the pages of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Little Women, and puts it somewhere in the tall grasses, hidden from view, where only the truly brave will ever traverse to earn it.
Created and Produced by Theater Reconstruction Ensemble
Performers: Harlan Alford, Michael Barringer, Nathaniel Basch-Gould, Sam Corbin, Eben Hoffer, Lena Hudson, Emily Marro, Preston Martin, Anastasia Olowin, Jon Riddleberger, Kelly Rogers, Claire Rothrock, Patrick Scorese, Lauren Swan-Potras
Designers: Alex Hawthorn, Marika Kent, Joseph Wolfslau
Producer: Reed Whitney
Photos: Suzi Sadler
Video: Michael Barringer
“You on the Moors Now is a wild send up of classic literature and an examination of women’s rights in a time that was sorely lacking in that category. Theater Reconstruction Ensemble develops their work over long periods of time and You on the Moors Now is the culmination of two years of development. Their efforts have paid off with a hit.”
Theatre Is Easy
Created and Produced by Theater Reconstruction Ensemble
Performers: Harlan Alford, Michael Barringer, Nathaniel Basch-Gould, Sam Corbin, Eben Hoffer, Lena Hudson, Emily Marro, Preston Martin, Anastasia Olowin, Jon Riddleberger, Kelly Rogers, Claire Rothrock, Patrick Scorese, Lauren Swan-Potras
Designers: Alex Hawthorn, Marika Kent, Joseph Wolfslau
Producer: Reed Whitney
Photos: Suzi Sadler
Video: Michael Barringer
“You on the Moors Now is a wild send up of classic literature and an examination of women’s rights in a time that was sorely lacking in that category. Theater Reconstruction Ensemble develops their work over long periods of time and You on the Moors Now is the culmination of two years of development. Their efforts have paid off with a hit.”
New York Theatre Review
“You on the Moors Now contains moments of broad comedy, touching simplicity, and mind-bending originality. Director John Kurzynowski has done excellent work with his cast of fourteen, all of whom meet the challenges of the text head on.”Theatre Is Easy