Can tales from the crypto make for effective theatre? Bitcoin Boi explored the subject through song last year, while A Very Crypto Christmas offered an absurdist take in 2022. But any suspense can feel abstract when the characters are engaged in that most un-theatrical of pursuits: squinting at screens.
In Wolves on Road, House of Ife writer Beru Tessema has the wisdom to make 21-year-old east London entrepreneurs Manny (Kieran Taylor-Ford) and Abdul (Hassan Najib) proper little Duracell bunnies. Manny lives with his mother, Fevan (Alma Eno), and is hyperactively hawking knock-off designer goods when Abdul, a “cryptovangelist”, offers him a way out. “My portfolio’s fuckin’ mooned,” he brags, and soon Manny is throwing everything at this moonshot, too. “I think your son just made £10,000,” marvels Fevan’s boyfriend Markos (Ery Nzaramba). But what goes up must come down …
