Job Interview
A dialogue piece inspired by Samuel Beckett's Endgame
"There was only one rule: don’t open the door.”
A:How are we going to leave? There's no window!
B: Well, I'm not staying here.
C: No, don't! You don't want to go against the one and only rule.
A: This is supposed to be a job interview, not an escape room.
D: More like a cage.
C: I don't think that's helping.
D: Or maybe a tomb.
C: Jesus Christ.
B: Can we not just go through the ceiling?
A: We're underground.
B: How did you work that out?
A: Did you not see the sunlight disappear as we descended into this...
D: Cage.
A: Yes, alright then, a cage!
B: I would prefer a cage over a tomb.
A: Really?
C: Maybe that's it. Whoever figures out how to get out without opening the door, climbing out the window or cutting through the ceiling gets the job?
A: They can keep their bloody job.
C: But do you remember actually applying? Does anyone? I mean, you asked if we saw the sunlight disappear, but do you recall walking down the stairs in the first place?
D: Maybe we're ghosts.
A: Alright then, try to walk through the wall, see how far you get.
C: Where's my phone?
B: Who you gunna' call?
A: Don't fucking say it!
D: Alright, here goes.
B: He's doing it, he's actually going to run through a wall.
A: Idiot... hurt, did it?
C: Come to think of it, do you even remember waking up this morning or falling asleep last night? When was the last time you remember locking your front door?
D: Ah, screw it. I'm going to open it.
A: Finally.
C: No, don't!
B: Shit, where did he go?
A: There's only one way to find out.
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"B: Who you gunna' call? A: Don't fucking say it!" Classic! This is a great entry, Rosie!