If you’re paying attention, you’ll realise that there’s something rather apt about the layers of juxtapositions that come together in the Australian debut of Job, an incisive new psychological thriller brought to the Melbourne stage by Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre. 

In this sharply troubling two-hander, Loyd (Darren Gilshenan) – a middle-aged psychologist with a penchant for DIY glass-blown jewellery – is the only thing standing between Jane (Jessica Clarke) and the one thing she really wants. After her very public meltdown becomes the subject of a viral video, Jane is placed on leave from her high-pressure job at a big tech company. She is desperate to get back to her desk, but Loyd isn’t so convinced that’s what she needs. Jane seems to think that violence might be the answer. Whatever the outcome, this heated session will entirely alter the outcome of both of their lives.

Black Mirror, eat your heart out. The foreboding meta-commentary of this production could compete with the quality of the complex modern dramas that cleaned up at this year’s Emmy Awards.