MODERATION

by Kevin Kautzman

In the darkly comic drama, social media content moderators lose their mind at work as they struggle to perform well enough to get a better job at the Company, whose mission is to "Connect the World" but whose platform is increasingly becoming an unruly tool for global discord and the worst the human Id can devise. More at moderationplay.com.

In the darkly comic drama, social media content moderators lose their mind at work as they struggle to perform well enough to get a better job at the Company, whose mission is to "Connect the World" but whose platform is increasingly becoming an unruly tool for global discord and the worst the human Id can devise. More at moderationplay.com.

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  • Arthur M Jolly: MODERATION

    There is a wonderful power in being taken into a hidden world in a play, and in Kautzman's riveting "Moderation," we are plunged into the world of content moderators: the nameless individuals who remove the traumatic and disturbing images from social media. The play is a gripping two-hander, with beautiful lines, and a complex, ever-evolving relationship played out on stage. Kautzman's style blazes on every page.

    There is a wonderful power in being taken into a hidden world in a play, and in Kautzman's riveting "Moderation," we are plunged into the world of content moderators: the nameless individuals who remove the traumatic and disturbing images from social media. The play is a gripping two-hander, with beautiful lines, and a complex, ever-evolving relationship played out on stage. Kautzman's style blazes on every page.

  • Annie Considine: MODERATION

    I saw this read at Valdez Theatre Conference and was struck by the wit and tension throughout. Thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue, language, and dark clouds of shifting power dynamics.

    I saw this read at Valdez Theatre Conference and was struck by the wit and tension throughout. Thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue, language, and dark clouds of shifting power dynamics.

  • Steven Haworth: MODERATION

    I haven't read a two - hander with this kind of dark precision since I read Mike Bartlett's "Contractions". By precision I mean the gleaming language, the wit, the overall structure, but also the specificity of the nightmare he invites us to enter. A nightmare which we thought we already knew because we live it every day on the internet, but discover it's so much worse than we thought.

    I haven't read a two - hander with this kind of dark precision since I read Mike Bartlett's "Contractions". By precision I mean the gleaming language, the wit, the overall structure, but also the specificity of the nightmare he invites us to enter. A nightmare which we thought we already knew because we live it every day on the internet, but discover it's so much worse than we thought.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Cut Edge Collective, Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization Spooky Action Theater, Year 2020

Awards

  • Austin Film Festival
    Semi-Finalist
    2020