{"id":18851,"date":"2025-05-18T18:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/the-last-incel-review-the-hate-horror-and-comedy-that-lurk-online\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:37:57","slug":"the-last-incel-review-the-hate-horror-and-comedy-that-lurk-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/the-last-incel-review-the-hate-horror-and-comedy-that-lurk-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Incel review \u2013 the hate, horror and comedy that lurk online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pleasance theatre, London<\/strong><br \/>Jamie Sykes\u2019 queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in \u2018incel\u2019 forums \u2013 but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is directed inwards as well as out<\/p>\n<p>Three men are gathered in an online forum to speak of women as bitches and \u201cBeckys\u201d. These are \u201cincels\u201d, who boast a coded vocabulary of hate and valorise male celibacy. That is, until a fourth man among them has sex. The opening scene is the morning after and the woman he spent the night with stands hovering behind his laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Cuckboy (Fiachra Corkery) and fellow incels Ghost (GoblinsGoblinsGoblins) Crusher (Jackson Ryan) and Einstain (Jimmy Kavanagh)<strong> <\/strong>are volubly and virulently anti-women. \u201cFeminists have destroyed male and female courtship,\u201d says one. But gradually they are shown to be desperate for intimacy, once the itch has been scratched by Cuckboy\u2019s hookup with Margaret (Justine Stafford).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2025\/may\/18\/the-last-incel-review-pleasance-theatre\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3c99c40d77f9d4ac510c5ea0dea10c795815273f\/1829_215_2842_2274\/master\/2842.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=334def36f149672c17e9a441362658b4\" title=\"The Last Incel review \u2013 the hate, horror and comedy that lurk online\" \/>Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes\u2019 queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in \u2018incel\u2019 forums \u2013 but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is directed inwards as well as out<br \/>\nThree men are gathered in an online forum to speak of women as bitches and \u201cBeckys\u201d. These are \u201cincels\u201d, who boast a coded vocabulary of hate and valorise male celibacy. That is, until a fourth man among them has sex. The opening scene is the morning after and the woman he spent the night with stands hovering behind his laptop.<br \/>\nCuckboy (Fiachra Corkery) and fellow incels Ghost (GoblinsGoblinsGoblins) Crusher (Jackson Ryan) and Einstain (Jimmy Kavanagh) are volubly and virulently anti-women. \u201cFeminists have destroyed male and female courtship,\u201d says one. But gradually they are shown to be desperate for intimacy, once the itch has been scratched by Cuckboy\u2019s hookup with Margaret (Justine Stafford). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes\u2019 queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in \u2018incel\u2019 forums \u2013 but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is directed inwards as well as out Three men are gathered in an online forum to speak of women as bitches and \u201cBeckys\u201d. 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