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The Interview

Comedy, too honest

  • Comedy
  • Two-hander
  • 3 min
  • Male role
  • Young adult
  • Beginner
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  • RECRUTEUR Male role, Adult
  • CANDIDAT Male role, Young adult your role

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(An office. The recruiter reads a CV upside down, without noticing.)

RECRUTEUR

Tell me about your greatest flaw.

CANDIDAT

I’m a perfectionist.

RECRUTEUR

Everyone says that.

CANDIDAT

Exactly, and nobody means it. With me, it keeps me up at night. It’s a real flaw, not a brochure flaw.

(Notes.)

RECRUTEUR

Interesting. And your greatest strength?

CANDIDAT

Honesty.

RECRUTEUR

So you’re honestly telling me you’re honest.

CANDIDAT

If I were lying, I’d start right there, yes.

(The recruiter finally turns the CV the right way up.)

RECRUTEUR

Ah. You have a lot more experience the right way up.

CANDIDAT

That’s often true of people, the right way up.

RECRUTEUR

Why do you want this job?

CANDIDAT

Honestly?

RECRUTEUR

We’ve established that’s your trademark.

CANDIDAT

Because I have rent, and your coffee machine is, I’m told, the best on the floor.

(A beat.)

RECRUTEUR

That’s the first true answer all day. You start Monday.

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