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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.

Review by James Wilkinson

A Grimm Thing – Directed by Joe Juknievich. Lighting Design: Abigail Wang. The ensemble includes: Isabelle Beagen, Dylan Goodman, Ryan Lemay, adian Madhurt Jo Michael Rezes and Kayleigh Kane. Produced by Entropy Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts March 8-10, 2019.

To begin at the beginning. The poster for Entropy Theatre’s premiere production, A Grimm Thing, depicts a young girl crouched on a path, presumably lost somewhere in the woods. The trees around her scale impossibly high, offering no real shade or comfort. If you look a little further down the lane is a squat wooden cabin, beyond that the mist and fog obscure any real indication of where the path we’re following will lead. Fear and dread hang in the air. We’ve entered the world of the Brothers Grimm. If your encounters with the brothers’ tales are limited to the versions produced by the Disney, you’re going to have to reorient yourself. Many of the original stories take a much darker view of the world than the one pushed by Uncle Walt. Here, blood is spilt, danger lurks around every corner and a ‘happily ever after’ is far from guaranteed.

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