The Office as a Boat

In the office you have to leave your dreaming behind, and live in the front of the head where all the analysis is done, where the facts of history are plotted, where logic operates, where emotion is scantily represented.’

An unending heatwave heightens the strange claustrophobia of the nine to five. Lou, Sarah, Verity, Susan, Casey, Isabel, Nell and Audrey all work together; they know the intimate details of each other’s lives, but also nothing at all. They are co-conspirators and competitor...