Plot Twists, Slick and Surreal: Job and Six Characters

Though Job is being sold as a thriller, the most unnerving aspect of Max Wolf Friedlich’s work as a playwright may be his ear for the dialogue of the irony-poisoned too-extremely online. Hyperliterate but only on a surface level, holier-than-thou, trigger-happy with an armament of generalizations—you might be familiar with someone who sounds like his characters if you’ve spent too much time in one crumbling tech forum or another. Friedlich, who has had his own experience...