{"id":9173,"date":"2023-03-02T20:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/person-spec-review-disturbing-show-puts-audience-on-an-interview-panel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:38:32","slug":"person-spec-review-disturbing-show-puts-audience-on-an-interview-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/person-spec-review-disturbing-show-puts-audience-on-an-interview-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Spec review \u2013 disturbing show puts audience on an interview panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alphabetti theatre, Newcastle<br \/><\/strong>In Alfie Heffer\u2019s frightening play, theatregoers become recruitment reps as a candidate is put through her paces<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1800s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2004\/sep\/12\/theobserver.observerbusiness11\">Frederick Winslow Taylor<\/a> 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 exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a bit of computer knowhow and the logical result of this managerialism is Person Spec, an initially daft and ultimately disturbing one-woman show that you would call dystopian if it were not so crushingly familiar.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk\/person-spec\">Alphabetti theatre, Newcastle<\/a>, until 18 March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2023\/mar\/02\/person-spec-review-alphabetti-theatre-newcastle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5c445d3de62eb8685ccf19ea641a0678da2d202f\/0_130_2048_1229\/master\/2048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8be8ea8f7a9dfbbbf9f1dbe7539d4980\" title=\"Person Spec review \u2013 disturbing show puts audience on an interview panel\" \/>Alphabetti theatre, NewcastleIn Alfie Heffer\u2019s frightening play, theatregoers become recruitment reps as a candidate is put through her paces<br \/>\nIn 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 exploitation.<br \/>\nThrow in a bit of computer knowhow and the logical result of this managerialism is Person Spec, an initially daft and ultimately disturbing one-woman show that you would call dystopian if it were not so crushingly familiar.<br \/>\nAt Alphabetti theatre, Newcastle, until 18 March. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabetti theatre, NewcastleIn Alfie Heffer\u2019s frightening play, theatregoers become recruitment reps as a candidate is put through her paces In 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/person-spec-review-disturbing-show-puts-audience-on-an-interview-panel\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Person Spec review \u2013 disturbing show puts audience on an interview panel<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}