The Office

The Office’ transcends the boundaries of the mechanical absurd. Here every cog in the machine has volume and depth and ultimately possess a human soul. The final succession of confessional monologues raises the production from the level of a statement to that of meditation and profound conception.

The inner impulse of the performance is each character’s longing to ‘repose correctly’, remember the meaning of self-respect and take the liberty to listen to him/herself. In the beginning the performance abounds in the director’s ironic comments on all kinds of training systems and techniques of personality growth. When the action gets in full swing, the office workers turn into out-of-control egotistic animals. But through their heartfelt confessional monologues the characters re-acquire the qualities of human beings. Throughout the performance the director has been masterfully juggling with genres and manners of actors’ stage presences but for the final scene he has chosen the style of ‘theatre of experience’. The actors’ faces look different as though masks have fallen off them. Actually the actors stop acting, i.e. posing as other persons, and at last make bold to be themselves.