THE CONSULTANT
Reviews
"Hydrocracker turns the business world into intriguing and gripping theatre”
— Jeremy Kingston, The Times
"Fleming offers some sharply funny satire on business waffle."
— Michael Billington, The Guardian
“A former management consultant himself, playwright Neil Fleming is well placed to satirise the role of the men behind the men in charge.”
— Alistair Smith, The Stage
“Fleming is a lively, pleasingly cynical writer...(Pip) Dinghy is a modern-day Satan, slithering around on his wheels and spitting put words like poisoned darts...His assistant, Nicola (Helen Millar), has an equally sinister sheen, eyes bulging as she looks for her next victim...the sharpest scenes are in-between the downtrodden Hugo (James Wilby) and his fiendishly clever wife, Claire (Sian Webber)”
— Miriam Gillinson, Time Out
“Geoff Church's production is also vigorously acted by a strong cast. Pip Donaghy as the maniacal James, Helen Millar as his seductive sidekick, James Wilby as the nervy executive and Sian Webber as his strong-minded spouse put flesh on Fleming's argument that we live in a credulous age in which management consultants are treated with a superstitious awe once reserved for alchemists and astrologers.”
