When we first meet Ralph, the main character in “Angry Alan,” the 85 minute play by Penelope Skinner at the intimate Studio Seaview, he isn’t angry.

Portrayed by John Krasinski who played the genial Jim on tv’s “The Office,” how could he be? Jim was always playful and smiling and playing gentle practical jokes on Dwight, his foil. Jim never seemed upset.

Ralph discovers Angry Alan, an internet personality with a blog and online videos. Alan is angry and he blames it on the gynocracy. Women are wielding all the power and men are suffering. As a result, fewer men are attending college and more men are committing suicide. Alan attracts many like-minded men, many of whom are disillusioned, divorced and disenfranchised.

After watching hours of him online, Ralph cancels his child support payment to get money to attend Alan’s convention and even becomes a Gold Donor. Ralph still isn't angry.Through the majority of the show, he is smiling as he addresses us.

Alan’s comments strike a nerve with Ralph and even when told that Alan keeps the donations the men make, Ralph is undeterred in his admiration. Alan is speaking his language and voicing his truths. “Why must men be the heroes? When must men be the providers?”

We laugh at some of what happens and Ralph wants that. He wants us to like him because he is a people pleaser, yet there’s a sadness about him and an insecurity.

Ralph shares the videos with everyone and is especially thrilled when Joe, his 14 year old son whom he hasn’t spoken to in months, reaches out and wants to visit.

Although Alan’s statistics seem high, I couldn't help but wonder if he made them up. Yet there’s one constant in his message- because women have all the power, men are are in distress. Ralph agrees but only at the end does Ralph’s repressed emotion emerge and then it feels sudden and abrupt.

Directed by Sam Gold, the show has a simple set (design by dots) and one other ‘live’ actor besides Krasinski. Joe, Ralph’s son (played by Ryan Colone) appears at the end while the other characters are shown in photographs and never speak.

Krasinski is winning and charming and the reason the Studio Seaview was sold out. In addition to addressing the audience, he responds to us and holds us in the palm of his hands. He does a fine job and whatever flaws in the show are in the play itself, not the performer.

Like many Off-Broadway theaters, Studio Seaview gives the audience a chance to be close up to the star, especially when Ralph runs up the aisle. Now he was really talking to us.

The material is not as powerful as it might be. Perhaps it is a bit dated, yet I couldn't help wondering if it would have felt more relevant if Alan (and later Ralph) were wearing a MAGA hat.

We love the messenger, even though the ending might have felt a bit hurried. But what about the message? The rest of the audience didn’t seem to care as much as I did. After all, it got to spend time with Jim from “The Office.”