The Moors

The Moors
by Jen Silverman
directed by Alissa Watson (MFA Thesis)

Oct. 10-18, 2025
Preview: Oct 9, 2025
Opening: October 10, 2025
Matinee: Oct 16 & 18, 2025
Evening performances: 7:30pm, except Wednesday Oct 15 at 6:30pm
Matinee performance: 12:30pm & 1:30pm 
(No performance on Sunday Oct 12, Monday Oct 13 & Tuesday Oct 14)

Please note the times of the performances. 

An isolated family dreams of love and power as they live out their lives on the bleak English moors. The sudden arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set the household on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and creating a legacy by whatever means necessary.

• Designers: Robert Shannon (Set, Props and Costume Design), T. Erin Gruber (Lighting and Projections Design), Matthew Skopyk (Composer and Sound Design)
• Stage manager: Keith Lonsberry
• Performers: Alexandra Dawkins, Gillian Moon, Travis Edwards, Gabi Stachniak, Katie O’Keefe, and Tori Kibblewhite

Wednesday, October 15 | Talkback Session
Join Department of English and Film Studies faculty member and Victorian literature expert Professor Peter Sinnema, Director Alissa Watson, and Dramaturg Macy Mccubbing for a talkback session following the performance.

Runtime | The Moors runs roughly 1 hour and 50 minutes with no intermission.

Content Advisory | Please be advised that this production contains: flashing lights, one instance of strobe lighting, simulated violence, mentions of suicide, insinuated sexual violence, stylized blood, theatrical haze and fog, substantial saturated colours, thunder, loud sound effects and bossanova.

Learn more | https://www.ualberta.ca/en/drama/on-stage/the-moors.html