Man Enough

Synopsis

The story behind Man Enough.

Man Enough is the voice of man crying to be heard, yelling to be saved from a world that thinks he is ‘Super Man’. It is the story of man and the fear to speak; it is the story of man speaking for the first time.

Most people think men don’t cry, but most people are wrong. Every day, men all over the world buckle under the burden of trying to be ‘man enough’. The pressure of trying to meet the increasing demands of an insensitive and over-demanding society continues to weigh down the modern man.

Bruno is your everyday alpha male: old, egoistic, rich, full of himself and ready to play. But beneath the puffed underbelly is a morbid fear he is desperately trying to hide.

Onyilo comes to you as a regular guy trying to run a more-than-regular studio. But to achieve the more-than-regular dream, you must do the more-than-regular—or not. With his world trying to explode before his very eyes, time may not be on his side.

For the first time on stage, we are faced with the various pressures the man has to struggle with: financial pressure, pressure of being rejected or accepted by women, pressure from the extended family, and the general pressure society puts on the man in his quest to prove that he is man enough.

Man Enough reflects the conversation to be had about changing gender roles and stereotypes in recent public discourse. ‘Boys are not smiling’ cannot be truer in a society that has no pity for men. It is time to see how stereotypical narratives hurt not just women alone; they hurt men too. Man Enough is not the story of three men; it is the story of every man—from Africa to Asia, Europe and America—every man who must prove to the world that he is man enough.