by Jordi Galceran
seen at the Menier Chocolate Factory on 26 May 2018
B T McNicholl directs Jonathan Cke, Greg McHugh, Laura Pitt-Fulford and John Gordon Sinclair in this Spanish play (translated by Anne Garcia-Romero and Mark St. Germain) which recounts an interview process for an executive job in a high-flying but unspecified business. In this version the interview is taking place in New York, but the American setting is not crucial.
The four characters discover that this, their fourth round interview, is to be conducted jointly, which strikes them as odd. It soon becomes clear that the interview process itself is unconventional, as instead of meeting a panel, or even a single person, the four are presented with a series of tasks and challenges, the instructions arriving impersonally in envelopes addressed to one or more of them which appear in a mysteriously opening drawer at appropriate times.
