A dark and quirkily comic journey through bureaucratic insanity
 
In a storybook corporate enterprise, The Pipe Manager has been directed by the shadowy and shady Board of Directors to offer up the impossible: take a perfectly good idea and turn it into something else. It’s insane, it’s unhinged, it’s kookily frustrating, it’ll never work... it’s business.
 
This uniquely imaginative and inspiring dance/theatre work places the audience inside a live illustrated storybook - where the performer and characters journey their way through a foreboding landscape rich in symbolism and metaphor.  The Pipe Manager takes a satirical look at how we draw upon our powers of creation and invention in the struggle to maintain control over our destinies.
 
O’Neill has created and directed this new work in collaboration with writer Peter Berkahn, illustrator XTN, sound composer & designer Guy Webster, dramaturg Kathryn Kelly and lighting designer David Walters, assisted by video production company Jaxzyn, costume designer Glen Brown and artistic consultant Keith Armstrong. 
 
‘Those prepared to step and think outside the box should find The Pipe Manager somewhat a gem.’ 

The Courier mail