Work Is Work: The Receptionist and The Fever
By Sara Holdren••Vulture
Two plays about capitalist work life have very different tones: Adam Bock’s play earns a middling performance review, whereas Wallace Shawn’s is a unicorn.
It doesnt take long to figure out that theres something not right in The Receptionist. At the start of Adam Bocks 2007 play now in a revival at Second Stage directed by the fluent-in-menace Sarah Ben…