The Sin Eater

Following the success of The Art of Silence I began a number of workshops in South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil) to explore the mind set of those who served as guards and torturers during the dictatorial years.

Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, specifically Rainbow of Desire, participants explored their own stories and the roles they had played and why.

The play centres on memories of interviews and material from interviews – some (semi) fabricated, the majority factual. The factual accounts have not been attributed and the torturer remains nameless deliberately to emphasise how it could be any one of us, that his monstrous capacity does not give him a monstrous appearance and that he could easily be the person standing next to us waiting for the bus, sitting next to us in a café, a neighbour, someone we work with, even a member of our own family.

The Sin Eater is a collection of the findings in a creative format which challenges audiences to look at uncomfortable and challenging perspectives.

The play was performed in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and the UK.