Think you have a boss from hell? Think women make better bosses? Think again. In Contractions, a sparky dark comedy by Mike Bartlett, a female boss interrogates and manipulates one of her luckless underlings with grimly hilarious consequences. Through a series of 14 meetings, Emma's personal life is interrogated under the scrutiny of her manager. Emma is forced to undergo a brutal journey to retain her job and her income - in a sequence of comic work meetings from hell. Written in 2008, this is a thoroughly modern portrait about the suffocating power of work that can disillusion everyone.