Sin Eaters

by Anna Ouyang Moench

Mary is a content moderator, one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds of violent, sexual, and otherwise disturbing imagery. As she goes deeper and deeper into the dark rabbit hole of unfiltered human depravity that is the internet, she finds a graphic video that makes her question her relationship, her sanity, and her own capacity for violence. By plunging us into a job where technology meets...

Mary is a content moderator, one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds of violent, sexual, and otherwise disturbing imagery. As she goes deeper and deeper into the dark rabbit hole of unfiltered human depravity that is the internet, she finds a graphic video that makes her question her relationship, her sanity, and her own capacity for violence. By plunging us into a job where technology meets drudgery, SIN EATERS examines how our daily toil transforms us from the outside in.

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  • Shaun Leisher: Sin Eaters by Anna Ouyang Moench
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    Such a fast-paced play about a job that not many people think about. Really admire Moench's writing in this play. Was fascinated seeing the toll this job takes on Mary and her mental health. This is a play that will definitely start some conversations.

    Such a fast-paced play about a job that not many people think about. Really admire Moench's writing in this play. Was fascinated seeing the toll this job takes on Mary and her mental health. This is a play that will definitely start some conversations.

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  • Rob Silverman Ascher: Sin Eaters by Anna Ouyang Moench
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    Lightning-fast, hilarious, and brutal, Sin Eaters depicts the depersonalization that the content machine requires of its cogs. This play's strength is that it has no answers, just a core conviction that the Internet has given us an audience to share the darkest parts of ourselves. How does that darkness spread and fester? The characters are vividly drawn and the settings are so specific, and the ride is fucked-up and exhilarating.

    Lightning-fast, hilarious, and brutal, Sin Eaters depicts the depersonalization that the content machine requires of its cogs. This play's strength is that it has no answers, just a core conviction that the Internet has given us an audience to share the darkest parts of ourselves. How does that darkness spread and fester? The characters are vividly drawn and the settings are so specific, and the ride is fucked-up and exhilarating.

    ”
  • Jan Rosenberg: Sin Eaters by Anna Ouyang Moench
    “

    A funny nightmarish play about desensitized we all are to the horrors around us. Better than a Black Mirror episode. Trippy as hell.

    A funny nightmarish play about desensitized we all are to the horrors around us. Better than a Black Mirror episode. Trippy as hell.

    ”
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Development History

  • Workshop, UCSD Wagner New Play Festival, 2016