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Max Wolf Friedlich’s Tech-Bro-Friendly ‘Theater for the Boys’
The playwright of Job isn’t trying to “change hearts and minds.”
But also in his clever, psychologically harrowing play Job, which I couldn’t stop thinking about after I saw it in the fall at the Soho Playhouse (it begins another run at the Connelly Theater in the East Village this month). The show is about a millennial content moderator named Jane who, after having an office breakdown that goes viral, is mandated by her Facebook-esque employer to see a technophobic boomer therapist; upping the drama, she brings a gun along to the session. (Lemmon told me that after reading the script for the first time, she had a stomach-ache for three days: “It stirred something up inside me that’s not easy to digest or think about or talk about.”) They’re both returning for the run at the Connelly.
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