Will Close is the Mediocre White Male, King’s Head Theatre March 2023
The mediocre white male of the title, or MWM as he is referred to by a colleague, is indignant. His faculty mates have moved on, and he is caught enjoying a speaking statue on the native stately dwelling.
To make issues worse, he is been despatched on a gender consciousness course for referring to his feminine colleagues as ‘ladies’.
He yearns for the previous when life was less complicated, there was banter, and he knew the place he stood.
But this is not a narrative of unfulfilled ambition and navigating a world that’s “politically right”. Well, it’s, however over the course of an hour, our MWM (performed by Will Close) reveals an increasing number of about himself that sheds him in a distinct mild.
He is a person who would not take rejection effectively or settle for accountability. He’s additionally incapable of understanding a distinct perspective. MWM is liable to utilizing phrases like ‘no person advised me’ and ‘how was I presupposed to know’.
His sense of entitlement is a delicate construct, revealed via his feedback about work and his relationship with an ex-girlfriend who has died.
Dressed in a greyish-white interval statue costume, as if about to go off to Covent Garden to entertain vacationers, he rubs subconsciously at his face smudging his white and black make-up till it seems to be grubby.
It is an acceptable metaphor for the way complicated MWM finds the shift in what’s socially acceptable. And his remaining shouted line is damning, a message that regardless of all of the proof, he simply would not see the place he’s accountable.
Will Close’s efficiency as MWM is initially disarmingly hapless; he’s a person who tends to say the fallacious factor, and you’ll chuckle firstly. But Mediocre White Male is a gradual shift, throw-away remarks begin to add up, and that’s the level.
It’s an fascinating play and really effectively performed. I’m giving it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
Mediocre White Male will probably be made right into a radio play, so maintain an ear out.
Mediocre White Male, King’s Head Theatre
Writer & Director: Will Close, Joe Von Malachowski
Cast: Will Close
Running time: 60 minutes with out an interval.
Booking till 18 March; for extra data and tickets, head to the King’s Head Theatre web site.
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