We’re standing with our ideas on Edinburgh’s Meadows whereas listening to Foreigner’s I Wish to Know What Love Is. It's simply the kind of soft-rock quantity the topic of Marion Thomas’s drama would hearken to, along with his bland tastes, fancy automobile and obsession with appearances. He's an involuntary celibate – or incel – a person as missing in self-awareness as he's full of hatred for a world he believes has let him down.
The music selection can be ironic. This man doesn't know what love is, neither is he ever prone to discover out. The grim propaganda of the web communities he frequents will see to that.
In a headphone-based strolling tour – half Reclaim the Streets, half audio play – Thomas and the Swiss feminist collective Pintozor Productions make the connection between the on a regular basis aggressions girls undergo by the hands of males and the violence propagated by the incel motion. They indicate a dehumanising continuum that begins with lairy behaviour on public transport and ends in rape and homicide.
Engagingly carried out by Rosalind McAndrew, the script follows the person’s route from playground bullying to social awkwardness, from the protection of on-line gaming to a corrupt philosophy fuelled by misogyny.
Whereas this 45-minute stroll on the streets round Summerhall stands as a information to surviving – or, not less than, navigating – masculinist territory, it says nothing in regards to the motion wanted to make the violence cease. By specializing in a motion related to mass killings, Thomas brings the script to a forceful finish, however incel ideology, nonetheless abhorrent, isn't the best risk. More durable to crack is a tradition that thinks it OK for ladies to worry going out in public.
At Summerhall, Edinburgh, till 28 August.
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