The tension within Penelope Skinner’s play Angry Alan (Studio Seaview, booking to Aug. 3) is down to the well-known, puppyish, regular-guy charm of John Krasinski, and the dark forces that curdle that charm into something rancid and dark.
Like the Jean Smart-starring Call Me Izzy at Studio 54, which opens Thursday night, this is a 90-ish minute show dependent on its distinctive banner name to sell tickets. Both are monologues (strictly speaking Angry Alan is mostly a monologue, bar a late second-voice intrusion), and both seek to muddy the familiar images of John Krasinski and Jean Smart.
In Angry Alan, which was originally performed on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018 by the play’s co-creator Don Mackay, Krasinski plays a guy called Roger who first seems to be the squarer version of what Krasinski’s character Jim Halpert from The Officemay have grown into: genially handsome, regular white collar job, older, divorced, dressed in flat-front chinos, sensible shirt (the astute costuming is by Qween Jean), living in the suburbs.
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