An Utterly Rubbish Adventure had the kids laughing right off the bat. It talks trash, literally, with a great combination of slapstick, silliness, and sound effects.

In this world, what goes down can’t go up, subverting a Newtonian law to provide a premise in which protagonist Mr Jim becomes stuck in Trashland; a place which is (presumably) to be found at the bottom of a bin. Singing milk cartons, egg cartons, and toilet rolls welcome the audience to Trashland with a tune and a pun. Trashland has its own special song which the audience can sing along to. Several other acoustic guitar tracks accompany the trash filled narrative, with decidedly non-reachy pro-recycling undertones.

You’d think a one man show set in a bin - requiring nothing but an assortment of garbage-bin gems as props - might be slightly… rubbish. And it is, in the most amusing ways. This is an amusing and engaging journey through a different kind of underworld, with the right amount of visual, verbal, and conceptual silliness for its young audience.

One man - UK-based comedian James Hancox - performs all the parts himself, aside from a voiceover track, which might also be him. This may sound cheap, but it actually adds to the comedic beauty of the performance. Hancox’s inventive methods of depicting multiple characters are engaging and entertaining.

Mr Jim, Clive the Inventer, and Brenda the yoghurt pot will have your kids making broom handle bass guitars and laughing at deconstructed horses in no time. Young audience members may also be inspired to make drums and pan pipes from tin cans, toilet rolls, duct tape, and cardboard.

This is a quirky and enthralling tale in which inventiveness, creativity, and farts save the day.