Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear the Musical, National Theatre review " gleefully subversive family musical
  Andy Stanton adapts his cult children's books for the stage, delivering madcap characters, comic irreverence and flashes of real menace A great hunk of rotting meat hangs centre stage, suspended over a rusty wheelbarrow. A figure in a bloody butcher's apron picks through the stalls, searching for cans of 'xxxtra cheap lager'. From the direction of the band, sinister Wurlitzer sounds begin to stir the air.…