JOB NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (147)
See it if You engage with modern technology and want a play that addresses our relationship to it. You appreciate fresh, original, gripping story
Don't see it if You’re triggered by guns, mental breakdowns, discussions of pedophilia and the horrors of the internet age. BUT PLEASE SEE IT ANYWAY
See it if You love plot twists and like psychological thriller. This play will mess with your mind in the best way possible. Also if you like tovk
Don't see it if You don't like suspense or plays with a nonlinear plot line. Or if complete darkness and bright lights with loud noise bother you!
See it if you enjoy small-scaled plays. Acting, suspenseful plot, staging and lighting - show was pure quality. I was mesmerized for the full 80-mins.
Don't see it if you want to stay away from work-themed trauma. It takes place in a therapy session and some explicit dialogue may be triggering. Read more
See it if you want to see a new thriller, two-hander play! Tension all the way through! Great acting. Great writing! Great direction!
Don't see it if Trigger warnings: adult content, guns, violence, sexual abuse. Mental health issues. Revenge. Don’t take kids.
See it if A thrilling, slender show, where you don’t really know where you’re going until you’ve gone. Tense as it is, there’s also real humor.
Don't see it if Avoid if you’re easily triggered by guns or if you need your stories tidily wrapped up in the end.
See it if a peak into the complex stress levels a job can bring an individual is just the perspective you've needed about your on work place drama.
Don't see it if a story about someone who is dealing with a STRESSFUL work situation is too triggering for you because this play will set you off for sure! Read more
See it if you would appreciate a topical, thought-provoking thriller.
Don't see it if you find difficult subject matter hard to shake off to the point that it's harmful. Read more
See it if you're in the mood for a tense thriller that makes you lean in and listen, featuring fairly dark material but also with levity mixed in
Don't see it if you're seeking a big/flashy production, large cast, or more action, rather than an intimate two-hander that is mostly talking
Critic Reviews (17)
Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon are awesome in playwright Max Wolf Friedlich’s galvanizing psychological thriller about an aged therapist and a troubled young tech worker that has been brought to the stage with high-caliber theatricality.
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‘Job’ Review: A Stress Test That Feels Like It’s Life or Death. In Max Wolf Friedlich’s nimble play, a crisis therapist tries to connect with a tech worker who is broken by her profession.
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“Behind the gun and the ever-increasing ghoulishness, ‘Job’ is, in essence, a parable of generational disempowerment and rage...’Job’ isn’t the kind of play in which spoilers don’t really matter. It’s built for the big drop, and to find out exactly what hellish depths it plummets to, you have to see it.”
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“ ‘Job’ springs a sensational and implausible twist, then subsides on an ambiguous note. But even the ambiguity is possibly an alternate reality, since we cannot be sure in this willfully murky drama where the truth lies.”
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“A two-person psychological thriller that pits an older man ostensibly in a position of power against a younger woman who is not afraid to seize it by any means necessary, ‘Job’ is Oleanna for the digital age, in which the stakes are much higher and the competition among America’s superfluous elite is even fiercer.”
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“Jane is a woman with a plan, and her method of seeking moral redress -- not to be revealed here -- is patently, almost laughably, unbelievable. It's also tasteless: In using certain techniques of the thriller format to explore one of the ugliest crimes that humanity can commit, Friedlich trivializes his intentions. Job intends to shock but ends up merely offensive, a brazenly manipulative shocker that leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.”
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“A bigger problem, and one that can't be resolved by the director, actors, or theatrics, is the play's instigating premise. While there is much to enjoy in the peeling back of the characters' emotional layers, I had trouble moving beyond the initial set-up...Illogical elements aside, there are admittedly enough dramaturgical pyrotechnics to keep everyone except the most curmudgeonly reviewers riveted. Consequently, fans of stage thrillers will find a great deal of satisfaction in this ‘Job.’ ”
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“Through the ‘Job' course, she’s [Lemmon] asked to run the gamut of emotions from A to way beyond Z and often in long outbursts. Tall and lean, she supplies the script demands here so forcibly that she eventually gives the appearance of an especially imposing exclamation point.”
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