Details

On a stormy night way back in a long gone winter, mad scientist Doctor Prospero worked late in his laboratory, aided only by his wife, Gloria, as he developed the elusive 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 many years into the future in her father’s company. Fifteen years later, a routine survey flight under the command of the chisel-jawed Captain Tempest leaves earth’s orbit with a new Science Officer aboard – a 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. And so the adventure begins ...

Cast/Performers

Brenden Lovett (Prospero), Michael Instone (Captain Tempest), Cathy McManaman (Science Officer), Rebecca Oliver (Navigation Officer), Racky Plews (Penny Scyllen), Alan Howell (Ariel), Stephen Rathman (Cookie), Kate Buxton (Miranda), Nicolas Sagar (Bosun), Gareth Dylan Smith (Mike Rhoechip)

Creatives/Company

Author: Bob Carlton
Producer: Katie Plews
Company: Ovation
Director(s): John Plews, Oliver Jackson (music)
Costume: Selina Wong
Sound: Jessica Martyn
Choreographer: Racky Plews
Lighting: Phil Berry
Other: Angela Weiss (stage manager)