Working From Home
Satire, the meeting about the meeting
- Satire
- Two-hander
- 2 min
- Male role
- Adult
- Beginner
Casting
9 lines- LE MANAGER Male role, Adult
- KARIM Male role, Adult your role
Full text
(A video call. Karim, at home, headphones on. His manager, full frame.)
LE MANAGER
Karim! So, how are we feeling, synergy-wise, today?
KARIM
Fine. I finished the report. Sent it last night.
LE MANAGER
Great, great. But the report, that’s a deliverable. I’m talking collective energy. Team vibe.
KARIM
There are two of us on the call.
LE MANAGER
And that’s already a team! Which is why I’d love us to “brainstorm” how to better “communicate” that we communicate.
KARIM
…That we communicate that we communicate.
LE MANAGER
Exactly. Meta-communication. Block me two hours. We’ll have a meeting about the meeting.
(A beat.)
KARIM
And the actual work, when do we do that?
LE MANAGER
The work? Karim. Work is so 2019.
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