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[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/14/24 at 10:58am

Surprised at the extension, but good for the cast and crew.

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 8/15/24 at 6:04pm

Sydney Lemmon Puts the Twisted Humanity Behind Tech on Broadway

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/theater/sydney-lemmon-job-broadway.html

[MezzA101]

Posted: 8/15/24 at 9:26pm

Fordham2015 said: "Sydney Lemmon Puts the Twisted Humanity Behind Tech on Broadway

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/theater/sydney-lemmon-job-broadway.html"

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[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 8/19/24 at 8:55pm

This play had me right until the part where she says her co-workers (in a supposedly professional and responsible company) filmed her panic attack with their phones and then shared the video with the outside world. That part was just too far outside the realm of possibility for me. 

I also hope the writer has a therapist of his own; you’d hope so with knowing details and processes like those that are encased in the female character’s job and then wanting to put those details onstage.  

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 8/19/24 at 10:36pm

this has happened numerous times. meltdowns caught on film at the workplace? literally a regular occurrence and one of the more believable, ripped-from-real-life elements of this play.

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 8/19/24 at 10:43pm

BorisTomashevsky said: "This play had me right until the part where she says her co-workers (in a supposedly professional and responsible company) filmed her panic attack with their phones and then shared the video with the outside world. That part was just too far outside the realm of possibility for me.

I also hope the writer has a therapist of his own; you’d hope so with knowing details and processes like those that are encased in the female character’s joband then wanting to put those details onstage."

Yeah I agree with PipingHotPiccolo — I don’t think it’s at all unrealistic/immersion breaking to believe that in a large corporate office that a few people may have filmed something like this. Probably not for entertainments sake, but if I were in that situation sitting across the room in a cubicle and felt my safety could be at risk, yeah I just might take out my phone to record it. On a similar note, I don’t think people would exactly be running around posting their original footage all over LinkedIn or Twitter ala “wowww my coworker is the craziest!” but rather probably sent it to 1-2 immediate friends that sent it to another 1-2 friends and eventually found its way to TMZ.

I loved how one of the biggest ideas the show touched on was how easy it is to dox people. It’s not unrealistic to think someone taped it and leaked it, even if with a non-malicious intention, and the company was able to check the footage to see who would’ve captured it and was responsible.

Not saying that’s how it WOULD have played out but … could have played out. It felt a very reasonable and realistic bit of context to me at least.

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 8/20/24 at 12:01am

I absorbed both your thoughts but I still don’t buy the filming thing in the way the character described it. Perhaps from across the room for your own safety and any future official analysis of the event, yes. But she was talking as though the phones were up in her face, trying to get the best angles, and that instead of helping her - someone in obvious crisis - all she saw was phones pointing her way. 

Sounds like it’s more than just her who needs to be in therapy at whatever company she works/worked for.

Also, the show’s key art is about the most unrelated-to-show that I’ve ever seen. It makes it look like an office rivalry comedy between the older co-worker and the newbie. I wonder how Peter Friedman feels seeing thumb tacks in his enlarged face every day. 

Still, much to admire here and I suppose it would be easy enough to do a Hollywood version. 

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 8/20/24 at 2:17am

Yeah I totally get it. And yes agreed about the key art! Don’t get me wrong I think the imagery is so so good and overall it’s super appealing artwork, but between that and the frontline synopsis e.g. “She wants to return to work, but Lloyd thinks that may be doing more harm than good”, I was really walking into this expecting a nuanced, grounded, and probably somewhat comedic commentary on work-life balance and that was the furthest thing from what the show actually ends up being in my opinion. Lol.

I loved loved the show overall but I think the content would be better served if the advertising actually fronted it as more of a dystopian thriller with immediate/verbatim comparisons to a show like Black Mirror. I wonder how that would have affected the shows popularity and reception.

Updated On: 8/20/24 at 02:17 AM

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 8/20/24 at 2:18am

To your last point, I will be sad if this does not get some kind of short film/movie adaptation. It’s the perfect piece for it and I hope film producers are being scouted/seeing the show.

[Melissa25]

Posted: 8/20/24 at 10:30am

I finally caught this last night and have to say that I am disappointed.  I thought the acting good but what a long eighty minutes. The sound/visual effects were confusing and not helpful. No realistic payoff for me.

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/22/24 at 7:10pm

I don’t know if my career in behavioral health has really crapped on my ability to enjoy psychological thrillers, but this was a confounding and aggravating miss for me.

My friend and I left the play speechless but in the worst way because it all just seemed so disorganized and rambling. I understand that the girl is demonstrating classic psychotic features (breaking from reality, paranoia, hallucinations), but she is also showing the mood lability of bipolar disorder and alluded to a history of behaviors associated with borderline personality disorder.

The fact that the the therapist engaged this type of behavior for such an extended period and tried to mine her psyche throughout her multiple flights of ideas and loose associations (peppered with modern jargon and buzzwords) started to annoy me after a while. What got me was the counter-transferring behaviors where he gives away his whole M.O by essentially saying:

 

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My daughter killed herself when she was 13, so now I try to save all the lost causes in order to assuage my own grief.

I will say though that, despite the writing being p***-poor, Sydney Lemmon did a great job performing the different aspects of her damaged psyche to a very believable extent and I could easily imagine her being a patient I would work with.


Glad I saw it - but I’ll be hard pressed to recommend this to anyone.

Updated On: 8/22/24 at 07:10 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/23/24 at 2:21pm

DiscoCrows said: "To your last point, I will be sad if this does not get some kind of short film/movie adaptation. It’s the perfect piece for it and I hope film producers are being scouted/seeing the show."

I do, oddly, think this might work a little better as one of those HBO Max/A24 Indie dramas with the claustrophobic camera work (like “Mass” or “Reality”) but there would need to be quite a bit of screenplay adaptation/rewrite to make it more understandable/appreciable

[HogansHero]

Posted: 8/24/24 at 12:01am

@quizking101 I have long felt that any play that treads too close to an area with which I have significant professional experience is (almost) invariably a disappointment. And I have heard the same from friends in other fields. So don't feel bad. 

In general, I am not someone who gets hung up on verisimilitude, but it's impossible for me not to when I know more about the nuance and intricacies than it seems the author does. I don't have a cure to offer. I did like the play a lot (including the writing that you loathed). I didn't have your issues with it but I know too well how disconnects from reality can take one out of a play. I don't mind plays that are an enigma (as this one is) and perhaps you do in general, which would just add to your feelings about it. 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/31/24 at 4:31pm

Wow. I caught this on a total whim today through TDF (long holiday weekend stuck in the city with no other plans, I'd seen everything else playing, and needed something to do), and I'm so glad I did. 

I thought this was great - jarring, tight, thrilling, intense, and well acted. I went into this one blind as a bat and had low expectations, but left mesmerized. I'm a sucker for any kind of psychological thriller, though, even if it's flawed and cliched... and I won't deny JOB veers into those territories at times. It's a slow burn, but, dang, I loved this one.

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 9/1/24 at 1:32am

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Am I the only one who think he’s not guilty? I thought that downtown and having seen it on Broadway I feel even strongerabout it. In order for him to be the man she is accusing him of being, him being her therapist would be a one in a six billion chance. It’s way too unrealistic.

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Not only would it be like a one in a 6 billon chance that she would be randomly assigned to the person she was obsessed with finding, she's also clearly mentally ill.  So the odds are beyond unrealistic AND there's a specific reason not to give her the benefit of the doubt. 

The therapist can't be the child abuser she's hunting. 

Which retroactively ruins the whole play. This kind of story only works if the two characters gradually learn to understand each other, and Jane can't understand the therapist if she's convinced he's another person.  

[Broadway Flash]

Posted: 9/6/24 at 3:21am

I hear this is making tons of money, and they are looking to transfer to another theatre in the spring.  A lot of the same producers as Appropriate, I’m sure the Belasco will be free for them again come springtime. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 9/6/24 at 7:53am

Broadway Flash said: "I hear this is making tons of money, and they are looking to transfer to another theatre in the spring. A lot of the same producers as Appropriate, I’m sure the Belasco will be free for them again come springtime."

Hear where? In your head?

It is verifiably not making money and had the lowest average ticket price this past week. Even in the smallest house on Broadway, $280k in gross is bad. This won’t be transferring to any other houses, and especially not a larger one.

[quizking101]

Posted: 9/6/24 at 9:05am

Broadway Flash said: "I hear this is making tons of money, and they are looking to transfer to another theatre in the spring. A lot of the same producers as Appropriate, I’m sure the Belasco will be free for them again come springtime."

…A show that’s been this heavily comped should be so lucky to make it to the end of its (mildly extended) run.

[berniesb!tch]

Posted: 9/7/24 at 5:16pm

Saw this today. I really loved it. I’m undecided where I fall on whether I think the twist is true, but regardless I thought it was an excellent play. Great script, actors and direction!!

[BETTY22]

Posted: 9/7/24 at 5:31pm

I loved this show off-broadway......has it changed much?