The Apartment

Insurance clerk C. C. Baxter lends his Manhattan apartment to executives conducting affairs, hoping their gratitude will advance his career. The arrangement becomes personal when he discovers that elevator operator Fran Kubelik is involved with his married supervisor.

Wilder balances office satire and bruised romance through repeated spaces—the endless desk floor, Baxter's apartment, the elevator—and performances whose comic timing by degrees reveals loneliness, compromise, and the cost of corporate advancement.