Bush theatre, London
As east London entrepreneurs Manny and Abdul try to get rich, Daniel Bailey’s energetic production bounces around but lacks any dramatic conflict

Can tales from the crypto make for effective theatre? Bitcoin Boi explored the subject through song last year, while A Very Crypto Christmas offered an absurdist take in 2022. But any suspense can feel abstract when the characters are engaged in that most un-theatrical of pursuits: squinting at screens.

In Wolves on Road, House of Ife writer Beru Tessema has the wisdom to make 21-year-old east London entrepreneurs Manny (Kieran Taylor-Ford) and Abdul (Hassan Najib) proper little Duracell bunnies. Manny lives with his mother, Fevan (Alma Eno), and is hyperactively hawking knock-off designer goods when Abdul, a “cryptovangelist”, offers him a way out. “My portfolio’s fuckin’ mooned,” he brags, and soon Manny is throwing everything at this moonshot, too. “I think your son just made £10,000,” marvels Fevan’s boyfriend Markos (Ery Nzaramba). But what goes up must come down …