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Sydney Lemmon Puts the Twisted Humanity Behind Tech on Broadway

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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