Person Spec review – disturbing show puts audience on an interview panel

Alphabetti theatre, Newcastle
In Alfie Heffer’s frightening play, theatregoers become recruitment reps as a candidate is put through her pacesIn the late 1800s, Frederick Winslow Taylor set about codifying the labour of the workforce in the paper mill and steel industries. His analysis, published in The Principles of Scientific Management, was designed to extract maximum yield from what became known as a human resource. The philosophy of Taylorism ushered in a thankless era of management e