The seed of actor and writer Temi Wilkey’s new one-woman show was planted when she saw a photo of herself dancing at an east London party. As she recreates it for me, she throws her arm up and adopts a model-esque expression, personifying, as a friend described it, “main character energy”. “I felt very empowered by her saying that, like: Is this how people could see me? Is this who I actually am?”
Main Character Energy became her show’s title, long before it was written. “Not to compare myself to Charli xcx,” she laughs, “but it makes me think about Brat, because she didn’t write any of the music until she’d come up with a name. It was a guiding principle, like: is that brat?”
