The critically acclaimed one man show performed by Luke Jerdy arrives at London’s Soho Theatre 24 May – 4 June.
In this brutally honest auto-biographical solo-show, Writer Majid Mehdizadeh (AKA Actor Luke Jerdy) traces the origin of his own personal struggles with anger and probes the unspoken anxieties, desires, and fantasies of male anger, inviting us to join him on his journey to a new modern ‘manhood’, as he battles with the invisible hierarchy that exists amongst men. How does anger affect both men and the lives of those around them?
Directed by Adam Welsh (DEAD CENTRE), Y’MAM is an inspiring, uplifting story about love, appreciation and learning to let things go.
After a highly successful run at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre in June 2021, the show has held a series of engagement workshops, bringing the dangers of toxic masculinity and anger to younger audiences. It opens in London’s Soho Theatre on 24 May before a two week run.
Writer Majid Mehdizadeh,
“I want to introduce a new kind of manhood, a masculinity that provides the foundations for how men should be and what that might look like. Learning to harness and control anger is a vitally important step on that journey. My experience has taught me that we need to make other emotions acceptable for men, to acknowledge feeling sad, scared or overwhelmed and not just diverting to raw anger. There are so many pressures to conform to ‘being a man’ or a ‘lad’, which often involves violence or negativity towards others. Anger and frustration at these pressures, coupled with complicated relationships with male family members have negatively affected me for a long time. I want to be clear to other young men that there is another way”.
