Return to the Forbidden Planet

The Rock & Roll musical that's out of this world! 

 

Return to the Forbidden Planet is a fantastic and fun 'Jukebox' musical by playwright Bob Carlton, based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and the 1950s science fiction film 'Forbidden Planet'. Packed full of rock’n’roll hits of the 50’s and 60’s including; Good Vibrations, Wipeout, Young Girl, She’s Not There and Great balls of fire - to name but a few - and high energy dance numbers, this show will have you captivated (and singing along!) from start to finish. 

 

A basic idea of the plot goes something like this: 

 

One dark stormy night, a mad scientist called Doctor Prospero worked late in his laboratory, aided only by his wife, Gloria, as he developed the mysterious formula with which he would change the world. The apparently faithful Gloria, however, duped him and sent him off into hyper-space in an old spacecraft. Unknown to Gloria, her infant daughter - Miranda - slumbered peacefully in the craft and was now catapulted light years into the future in her father's company. 

 

Fifteen years later, a routine scientific survey flight under the command of Captain Tempest leaves Earth's orbit with a new Science Officer aboard - a somewhat hard and bitter woman. As a shower of meteorites hits the ship, the Science Officer flees, and the craft is pulled inexorably towards the planet D'Illyria- the Forbidden Planet. The exciting adventure begins...

7th to 11th May 2013 - 7.30pm  plus a 2.30pm matinee on the 11th
Tickets £12 to £15 - for group bookings call: 0845 257 2355  (not after 9.30pm)