Alpha Tango

General Information

Original French title: Alpha tango. Genre: Satirical comedy. Cast: 5 characters (3 M / 2 F). Estimated running time: 1 hr 30, no intermission. Set: One location only (the Alpha Studio). No major technical complexity.

Synopsis

Masculinist drift... all the way to total blackout

At the heart of a modern closed-room comedy, three young men with explosive digital immaturity barricade themselves inside the “Alpha Studio”, the lair where they industrialize the business of masculinist resentment and mechanical seduction coaching.

Author’s Note

Welcome behind the scenes of a live stream spinning out of control. In an age of algorithms and testosterone marketing, the tension builds around the emptiness and absurdity of Stan, Vadim and Marcus’s rhetoric. But when Garance, the eco-feminist influencer, agrees to cross the threshold of their den for a flesh-and-blood confrontation, the virtual veneer cracks. The power blackout triggered by Stan’s paranoia plunges the play into darkness, and the masks begin to fall.

Through fierce irony and a pop comedy of manners, the play exposes the pathetic fragility and disconnection of men who, cut off from the real world, attempt to turn domination into theory.

📖 Read Act I online
Complete English manuscript available on request at geoffray.tranber@gmail.com
Also available on the New Play Exchange
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