Only 50 minutes long - but that is probably as much as the audience could take. This is amazingly powerful and cringe-making. It centres upon three people from an office - two successful; one the identified 'loser'. The time has come to make a redundancy and by the time the boss arrives, the two have already so undermined and stitched up the one that the answer is obvious.
The action takes place in a boxing ring with two rows of the audience standing ringside. All is conducted under bright lighting and the ending is brilliant as the victim knocks down the water machine which then evacuates and turns the ring into a pool of some two inches of water with the victim lying motionless within it.
There are moments of humour at the start but by about halfway little laughter is heard. It is extremely well-acted and tough to watch. Towards the end the unrepentant female bully muses upon the evolutionary significance of bullying, it serving the tribe to get rid of characters/ characteristics that could jeopardise survival.
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