Flowers in the Wardrobe is an NC-17 mash-up of children’s classics

Allow me to suggest a tagline for Whim Productions’ season opener, Flowers in the Wardrobe: “No one’s childhood is safe.”

The original script, written by local playwright Kevin King, populates C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia with children less family-friendly than the Pevensies: the incestuous Dollangangers of V.C. Andrews’ Flowers in the Attic.

What unfolds is an unapologetically campy mash-up in which few beloved icons are spared. King’s Narnia is filled with fascist fauns, bottom-sniffing beavers, and a White Witch who could moonlight at a racy nightclub.

Mr. Tumnus aside, Flowers seems to be working in the tradition of the Greek satyr plays, burlesquing its source material with nonstop sexual gags, props as punch lines, and generalized debauchery. (The program even suggests rules for a drinking game.)

It seems like an ideal fit for director Steven Eubank, on loan from Egads Theatre Co., who contributes his peerless energy and fine-tuned pop-culture savvy to King’s script. Actress Stefanie Stevens has great timing and physicality as eldest sister Cathy, and Andy Perkins wrings laughs from his portrayal of Mr. Tumnus. Amy Kelly is hotblooded perfection as both the White Witch and the Dollangangers’ malicious mother, poured into a series of glittering dresses.

The production design is as bold as the script, with especially strong lights from Alex Perry and Elizabeth Green. Tabatha Treml’s animal costumes are as intricate as they are ridiculous, and production stage manager Ashley Pike is in confident command of a prompt book packed with punch-line-timed light and sound cues.

King’s script has few pretensions and doesn’t seem to be striving for something more complex than campy farce. If that means continuity and momentum are sacrificed for jokes, so be it. Flowers in the Wardrobe is, in three words, exactly as advertised. And if you know what you’re getting into, you’ll have a pretty good time.

Flowers in the Wardrobe runs through May 31 at the Arts Asylum, 1000 East Ninth Street, whimproductions.com.