YOU ON THE MOORS NOW
By Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Jess K Smith
Set Design by Kurt Walls
Costume Design by Mishka Navarre
Lighting Design by Patty Mathieu
Set Construction by Robin Macartney
Assistant Directed by Erin Ganley
Dramaturgy by Mariah Prinster
This playful, smart, feminist play by Jaclyn Backhaus (Men on Boats, Kilroys List) goes back more than a century to give some of our favorite literary characters a 21st century makeover. It’s 2018 and Jo March, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Eyre, and Cathy Earnshaw Linton have moved far beyond their original forms. They are fed up with men who conflate feelings of love with expectations of ownership and are ready to call it out in no uncertain language; begging the question of whether female friendships can be enough. Written with fast, witty, and often crude turns of phrase, this play is both a send up and love letter to the heightened emotions, epic landscapes, and tortured journeys so intrinsic to the books from which these characters originate.
Featuring: Mattea Prison, Allie Lawrence, Hannah Monsour, Lydia Thompson, Jack Aldisert, Banji Oyewole, Robbie Diaz, Dylan Turczan, Clara Nelson Jacobs, Brynn Allen, Emma Rose Kelly, Britta Baer-Simon, Frankie Gormley, Julian Aikens-Helford, Jordan Pearson
Norton Clapp Theatre
University of Puget Sound
