"“It seems a bit gruesome,” he tells us, explaining what he does with a catch, “but I cut the gills and I hold it in the water of the stream and bleed it out. It's the humane way to kill a fish ... And then I eat it. And that's okay. Because everything out there is eating something.”"
"On an office set by the ever-busy dots collective with a color scheme set to maximum soul-drain, we meet the chipper Beverly Wilkins (Katie Finneran), the titular admin, gossiping away on the telephone while deftly routing her absent boss's calls to his voicemail. She gives her interlocutor motherly romantic advice (no more married men!), she orders a birthday cake, she cleans the coffee station, does some shredding, and bustles productively as her co-worker Lorraine (Mallori Johnson) arrives, also in need of romantic advice (no more narcissists!)."
"The tone is aggressively beige - except that Beverly casually lets slip that “something went wrong yesterday. With a client. Mr. Raymond came back to the office very upset.” Perhaps that explains the eventual arrival of Martin Dart (Will Pullen) from “the central office.”"
"I won't give away the play's twist, because it has only one, which it deploys fairly early and then simply ratchets up for the rest of its 80 minutes. Suffice it to say, we do"
A soft-spoken man describes humane killing of a fish, cutting gills, bleeding it out, and eating it. An office receptionist, Beverly Wilkins, manages calls, gossip, romantic advice, errands, and routine tasks in a beige, soul-draining workplace. Her coworker Lorraine also seeks romantic guidance. Beverly mentions that something went wrong with a client, Mr. Raymond, who returned upset. Martin Dart arrives from central office, and a single early twist escalates steadily through the remainder of the play, revealing what is truly eating at the people in the office.
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