Moench is making huge waves with her bold, unapologetic, and structure-shattering plays, almost always centering the experiences of women of color. Her plays utilize an element of surrealness that brings the severity of the plot to a heightened level, made digestible in its horror by her choices in nonrealism. She is masterful at building dynamic groups of characters who must all interact at once, something which can be very hard in larger casts that spend a lot of time onstage all together. Mothers in particular is a triumph in form, narrative, and emotional impact.

The funniest and most accurate capture of the competitive nature of motherhood that takes the war to hilarious heights. Well done!

MOTHERS shook me to my very core. The world Moench has constructed (the reversal of the racial hierarchy, the playful absurdity of teddy bears as human children, the obscurity of this society's decline into dystopia) is one of the most unique and compelling I've ever read. I love that we're not given all the answers and are trusted to put many of the pieces of this puzzle together ourselves. I love the strong, messy, flawed women that make up this alternate reality. I love love love this play.