Fungus the Bogeyman

Synopsis

A feast of a show for all the family full of music, fun, filth and flatulence. Enter the underground kingdom of bogey wonderland! Slime every mountain and pop up in the bright, shiny overworld of the dry cleaners in this disgusting show for all the family over the festive season. Fungus the Bogeyman's job is to venture "up top", above Bogeydom to scare drycleaners, but when one adventure backfires, the Bogeypeople's worst nightmare becomes a reality, a dry cleaner has discovered their existence! Age 4+

Our Review:

10 December 2007

Here’s an antidote to Christmas sugar and spice. It might even be an aid to eating less over the festive season.

Everyone knows that children aged four to 11 are more likely to respond with pleasure to farts and bogeys than they are to tinselly charm, but they do like a bit of magic too. Fungus the Bogeyman by Pilot Theatre manages not to lose its heart in a welter of dreadful puns and jokes about Flaked Corns for breakfast and Snot Noodles for lunch. Based on Raymond Briggs’ popular strip cartoon celebration of all that is yucky, it retains a smidgen of truth about the way different kinds of people judge each other and must compromise to get on. The magic comes from the staging and the full-throttle acting.

Marcus Romer, Pilot’s artistic director, has adapted the book to include songs and lots more puns while being true to its gloriously slimy spirit. A narrator from the sewers (accordion-paying Christan Edwards) links the smelly underground...

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