The Last Incel: 'it's an ideology of hopelessness with comedy potential'

The Last Incel - (Dean Ben Ayre)

The Last Incel is one of those theatre shows that feels so timely it’s like having the conscience of a nation played out in front of you.

Taking place at the Pleasance Theatre, it is about three incels – those involuntary celibates who have been thrust back into the public consciousness after the huge reaction to Netflix’s Adolescence – who gather in chat rooms to share bitter rage at the world and particularly women, who they hate because those women are not interested in them. Society has trained them that way, and so they will turn their involuntary celibacy into a choice, and a rejection of society and its females.