Culture Watch: The Last Incel
Taking a satirical look at the online world of radicalised and isolated men.
Written and directed by Jamie Sykes, The Last Incel takes a satirical look at the online world of radicalised and isolated men.
The narrative is centred around the life of a young man, known online as “Cuckboy”, and his fellow incels “Ghost”, “Crusher” and “Einstain”. Following a typical day in the lives of this chronically online community of toxic men, the audience observe the ideologies of the group being challenged after one of the members sleeps with a woman. The woman in question is a journalist called Margaret, a voice of reason who must interrogate this online world and finally confront her own history with toxic men.
Blending humour and dance with empathy and accountability, the play promises to be a uniquely Irish take on a universal issue.
"I felt the incel ideology was ripe for satire..." explains Jamie Sykes. "There’s something inherently funny and self-defeating about not being able to have sex and then, as a solution, adopting a world view that guarantees other people won’t want to have sex with you. In satirising the ideology these men hold we hope to tell a story that is funny, entertaining and enlightening, while allowing audiences to engage with this digital world in a medium that is human and cathartic. We hope to create a space that allows some empathy for the humans existing underneath these toxic ideas and foster some dialogue on how best to engage with them as a social phenomenon."
The Last Incel will run at the Pleasance theatre in London, 14-31 May
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