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Rumpy Pumpy! review " WI's brave sex crusaders trivialised by lewd jokes and crass songs by Michael Billington

Union theatre, LondonThe story of Women's Institute members fighting to decriminalise sex work did not deserve the Carry On treatmentThere is a good show to be written about the 10-year campaign to decriminalise prostitution by two members of the Hampshire Women's Institute. This, however, is emphatically not it. With book, songs and lyrics by Barbara Jane Mackie, the musical Rumpy Pumpy! seems torn between cheering …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM on November 16, 2016

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