Moderation

“Doxxing. Threats of violence. It’s in the handbook. If you get a school shooting or a beheading, you know what to do. Remove. Suspend. Report.”

In this startling dark comedy, a pair of social media moderators become increasingly “brainsick” at the disturbing content they’re forced to view at work. They struggle to perform well enough to be promoted to a better job at the Company, whose mission is to "Connect the World" but whose platform is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous tool for global discord and a firehose for the worst material the human Id can devise.

Moderation is a new American play about social media content moderators losing their minds at work and our uneasy new world: conspiracy theories, incels, digital rabbit holes, AI anxiety, and corporate slavery. He and She live in a cultural void, clutching to survival through a gallows sense of humour as they search for some kind of human connection and meaning beyond a quarterly trip to the Company Store.

A fast-paced cross between the social surrealism of Pinter and a season premiere of Black Mirror, Moderation is a ripped-from-the-headlines, doom-scroll thriller about the effect social media has on our increasingly fractured society.

LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED. UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. The performance lasts approximately 80 minutes without interval. No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.