For the first time ever, Bananaman will soon be live on stage.
“This is 29 Acacia Road. And this is Eric Wimp. He’s a schoolboy who leads an amazing double life. For when Eric eats a banana an amazing transformation occurs. Eric is Bananaman. Ever alert for the call to action.”
This production marks the live action debut of the Man-of-Peel. A hero who has ‘the muscles of 20 men and the brain of 20 mussels’. Bananaman is a unique member of the superhero line-up. Our handsome... hero may have a jaw line you can see from space and the snazziest of tight lycra outfits, but he’s not the sharpest tool in the box. In fact, he doesn’t even know where the box is. With supervillains Dr Gloom and General Blight attempting world domination who can we call? Superman’s on holiday, Spiderman’s not picking up – our only option, our very very last option is …Bananaman.
Bananaman began life in the Nutty comic in 1980, and was a flyaway success, transferring to The Dandy, where he appeared until 2012. A send-up of the likes of Superman and Batman, he was the subject of the hugely popular TV cartoon which ran between 1983 and 1986 for 3 series and 40 episodes on the BBC and featured the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie from The Goodies.
With a useless hero and some equally clueless villains, Bananaman’s winkingly clever, delightfully silly type of humour has been sealed into the memories of those who saw him first, and will now spark the imagination of a new generation of Bananafans. This fruitiest of superheroes is experiencing a revival elsewhere - Bananaman the Movie is also in development. It won’t be long before we all ‘Peel the Power’ of Bananaman.
