Charismatic and something of a chancer, Dougal succeeds in convincing not one but two company managers to hire him as an ‘arts man’ – someone who will explore the psychology of the workplace and put in place plans for better productivity.
I’ve recently been re-watching Matt Berry’s wonderful TV series Toast of London and there was something of that surreal show in the world that Spark has created here.ĭougal Douglas comes from Scotland to Peckham to conduct “research” for an autobiography he is ghost-writing about an aging stage star, the magnificently named Maria Cheeseman.
There is a cumulative strangeness to this dead-pan tale, which marries ingenuity, strong pacing and dark humour to great effect.
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