Written by Ira Wallach
| A Broadway hit, this refreshingly literate comedy is concerned with
the hilarious lengths gone to by a brilliant, but broke, scientist to
land a much-needed job with a large corporation. The Story: It is about
a physicist who needs money so badly he turns to a $60,000 a year job
offered by a large corporation. He wants the job, but does the company
want him? Mr. Personnel is sent to find out. What seems to be starting
out as a shopworn target - individuality versus conformity - turns out
to be an ingeniously conceived discussion of honesty and truth. After
being coached by a grey-flannel collegiate on how to be what every company
wants, the scientist is prepared to confront the ‘enemy’ (after
trading in his rolled-up trousers and flapping shirt for a neat brown
suit)... He hides the cello he plays with pick-up quartets; he hides the
medieval history books his wife writes; he hides all but the acceptable
three liquor bottles. He hides, in fact, everything that he and his wife
are. And hauls out the television set. What follows is a literately comical
playground with industrial conformity that for sheer humor is wonderfully
adult. |
| Featuring: | As: |
| Dean Burgi | Director |
| Producer |