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Neil Mullarkey as L Vaughan Spencer in DON'T BE NEEDY BE SUCCEEDY
Verdict: The Bad Boy of Business
Edinburgh - Assembly Rooms - August 02
Venue - Assembly Rooms
L Vaughan Spencer
Neil Mullarkey
‘I speak every day with the CEO of an office supply company in Kilmarnock.
We bond by embracing emotional bushes.'
Welcome to the world of L Vaughan Spencer, motivational coach and
author of the best selling ‘A Child Called "Oi"', ‘Hugging for Sportsmen’,
‘The Road Less Tarmac’d’ and ‘Who Wears the Pants in your House, Schmuck?’
L Vaughan 'the bad boy of business, the heist on the zeitgeist' accepts the
challenge of a new intake of failures every night. Using methods
acquired from time spent with ‘Red Indians, or - to be PC - Native Red Indians’
he turns the audience into a roomful of succeeders.
L Vaughan developed his techniques after showing a friend who had everything
- house, car, millions in the bank - that he was in fact unhappy. The friend
now lives in a tent, and L-Vo’s made millions for himself ‘teaching people
things they already know’.
His approach is always direct: ‘I find the best way to motivate is to shout
at people very loudly until they do what I want’. His methods are new: Tong
Shui (‘A curling tong can right many a wrong’), Letter Alignment, and the
Alphabet Diet (Letter Alignment applied to eating). For example Andy in
the audience is allocated a diet beginning with his initial, A - almonds, and
Armenian Food. L-Vo’s sister Nancy eats nuts.
Graduates of the Edinburgh L Vaughan Spencer workshops can move up to LV
Succeeder Weekends held at the Watford Ramada Hotel, close to the organisation’s
headquarters in Luton. Women seeking increased power can attend Girls Can Wear
Trousers, and for pensioners there’s Confidence for Codgers. Men in doubt can
enrol for the Watford Warmer Weekend where, in Vaughan’s own words ‘We get
together as men to examine our manhood and contemplate our demons in the
Harlequin Shopping Centre’.
This is feelgood comedy at its zenith. Neil Mullarkey’s warm and
affectionate rapport with his audience - including those singled out for
personal tuition - infects the room with delight. As the crowd leaves at the
end looking elated, it’s hard to avoid the worrying conclusion that L Vaughan
Spencer’s methods actually work.
Written and directed by Neil Mullarkey
John Park
reviewed at The Assembly Rooms / Saturday 3 August 02
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