Beg For Me
Beg For Me, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is a one-act, two-player show exploring the dangerous world of alt-right activism in the context of the January 6th US insurrection.
About Beg For Me
After a successful run at London’s Pleasance Theatre, writer Rosa Maria Alexander presents Beg For Me at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; a one-act, two-player show exploring the dangerous world of alt-right activism in the context of the January 6th US insurrection.
In this riveting new play, follow how one young man's radicalisation leads him to the steps of the US Capitol. Beg For Me explores the implosive intersection of violent misogyny, the alt-right and digital extremism. One year on from the storming of the Capitol, the US has experienced a "peaceful" transfer of power – but have the forces that brought thousands to protest the results of the 2020 election changed? Beg For Me delves into the mindset of toxic male behaviour – with dark consequences.
With the alt-right on the rise globally and the recent overturning of Roe vs Wade, Beg For Me comes at a critical time. The show examines the roles that platforms such as YouTube, Fox News, Twitter, and Reddit, play in further alienating predominantly disenfranchised, young, working-class men and women who, all too often, fall victim to alt-right bait - taking all the rage, isolation and discrimination they feel daily and focusing their upset towards minority groups instead of banding together to help one another and defeating the real enemies at play.
Through the lens of @R3alam3rican99, Beg For Me explores interconnected themes like the highly nuanced modern day ‘sex positivity’ movement and the role media plays in normalising ‘rough’ sex – often with kink becoming the baseline for new sexual encounters – and examines whether this trend of more intense intercourse is acting as a cover-up for acts of violence against women.
Writer Rosa Maria Alexander reflects, "Beg For Me was born out of the need to find meaning in an act of senseless violence and greed, at a time when the world should have been coming together. I wanted to confront the hateful, alt-right personas the internet has created, dissect them and examine what led them down this path...and serve them up a sweet slice of revenge whilst doing so."
No other form of performance terrorism has encapsulated the ‘fake news’ and modern alt-right indoctrination the world faces than the attack on the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 and consequently, it is the crucible of the show and the plot in which we dangle from.
Beg For Me was originally written and performed as part of Mountview's Catalyst Festival in August 2021, had a successful run at London's Pleasance Theatre in November 2021 and was performed as part of Camden People’s Theatre’s Sprint Festival in March 2022. The show is around 60 minutes in duration.
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