dogsbody

Aiding everyone is Lisa Kwak as The Mute, a sort of onstage stagehand and dogsbody who distributes props as needed, moves set pieces and generally keeps the show moving.

He said: "He started out as a dogsbody at the Croydon Times and then just built this empire of 220 papers across the country."

He had dreamed of going on radio, and on a tip from a New York announcer moved to Miami, where he got a job as a dogsbody at a small station, WHAR.

I was 21, and worked at French Vogue as a general dogsbody and, just like Emily, my French boss despaired of me.

Emotional and artistic complexity are perfectly poised in this account of a listless 36-year-old office dogsbody who is thrown into an existential crisis by an encounter with his estranged dad.