This is a brand new play by prolific local playwright Joe Graham, most recently behind last year’s OFS hit Fistful Of Mondays. Set in an advertising agency, it tells the story of five characters organising a charity fun run. Now, you would think that subject matter like this could rouse nothing but admiration, but unfortunately this production’s script buries it so deep that no matter how much goodwill the subject matter emits, it can’t dig it out.

Fun Run’s plot and gags are so laboured and predictable that you can see them coming from hundreds of miles away. It leaves nothing to chance, the characters the play wishes you to root for and wishes you to dislike are practically visible from space, as is each and every plot twist and turn. In fairness to the actors, they’ve been rendered helpless by a clunky, boorish script, which is completely devoid of subtlety.

Imagine the worst of the 70s sitcoms, only with all the good jokes edited out.

With a mail order narrative, tedious toilet humour and characters that have the depth of an ashtray, Fun Run is banal, humourless and completely without merit.