None Escape - The Island of Doctor Moreau

Name: None Escape - The Island of Doctor Moreau
Start: 2025-03-14T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Unity Somerville

Schedule

Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Unity Somerville | Somerville, MA

by Robin Abrahams, adapted from the novel by H.G. Wells
Directed by Elizabeth Ross
Tickets: https://www.theatreatfirst.org/tickets
Play description:
Written by Robin Abrahams, author of the “Miss Conduct” advice column in the Boston Globe
Sunday magazine, “None Escape (The Island of Dr. Moreau)” is set in a trauma support group in the present day. A newcomer to the group, Abigail Prentiss, shares her story of being lost at sea on the way to an elite science conference on an exclusive resort island … and finding her way to an even more exclusive sort of island, where nightmarish ideas become flesh, and malign influences hum like insects in the tropical sun.
As Prentiss tells her story, the space and actors around her become the set, the props, and the characters: the megalomaniac Dr. Moreau, his embittered assistant Jack Montgomery, and their Island of painfully transformed “Beast Folk”—Ape Man, the Sayer of the Law, Puma
Woman, and more.
Performance dates and times:
Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8pm
Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 8pm
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 8pm
Friday, March 21, 2025 at 8pm
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 8pm
Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 8pm
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 8pm (Masks are required for this performance)
Friday, March 28, 2025 at 8pm
Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 2pm (matinee!)
Cast:
Abby Prentiss – Sarah Jacobs
Jack Montgomery – Trevor St. Pierre
Gavin Moreau – Ari Herbstman
House Manager/Sayer of the Law – Rebecca Shoer
Survivor 1/Puma Woman – Addie Pates
Survivor 2/M’Ling – Rosie Sentman
Captain/Dog Man – James Scheffler (U/S for Moreau)
Group Member 1/Ape Man – Miles Taylor
Group Member 3/Leopard Man – Alex Gorowara
Ensemble Beast Folk:
Amelia Smith (Group Member 2)
Jaryn Wilcox
Cathryn Philippe
U/S for Prentiss – Cari Keebaugh
U/S for Montgomery – Jonah Toussaint
Crew:
Producer - Jess Viator
Director - Elizabeth Ross
Dramaturg - Robin Abrahams
Assistant Director - Peter Duerst
Stage Manager - Xuan Li Leong
Assistant Stage Manager - Kevin Schult
Technical Director - Chloe Trepanier
Set Designer - Ben Cordes
Head Carpenter - Katie Biegel
Lighting Designer - Nick Calow
Sound Designer/Musician - Daniel "Rourkie" O'Rourke
Sound Technician - Juan José Boschetti
Costume Designer - Alina Ishizaki
Properties Managers - Audra Congress and Jason Rhode
House Manager - Lauren Kimball
Location:
None Escape will be presented at Unity Somerville, 6 William Street, Somerville.
Note: The performance space is not wheelchair-accessible.
Parking on William St is by permit only. General parking is available on College Ave. Please read signs carefully to avoid ticketing.