"Bureaucracies". Pilch
The marketing blurb says, ' Bureaucracies is about corporate culture, drawing on real-life experiences to explore the absurdities, frustrations, and humour of modern working life.' It sounds like a slightly predictable satire on management consulting, doesn't it? A collection of gags about corporate buzzwords that people found funny fifty years ago. But Bureaucracies is anything but lame satire. It's a dark, dirty assault on the human soul. Innocent Scouse office-worker Brian walks into a new job, and once he's in, he can never get out - literally. He's trapped in the room, he's given a computer, and no one ever tells him what he's supposed to do with it. His two bosses, middle manager Andrea and her superior Jim, cajole, bully and flatter him until he's little more than a nervous pile of jelly wobbling at his desk. All I can say is, if this truly draws on first-time playwright Aidan Kane's real-life experiences, then his working conditions wer...
