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

Georgina Field, Christine Holman (Science Officer), Callum Hughes, Greg Last, Joseph Mann, Joseph Mann, Jonathan Markwood, Sean Needham (Captain Tempest), Mark Newnham, Sarah Scowen, Steve Simmonds (Bosun), Fredrick "Frido" Ruth

Creatives/Company

Author: Bob Carlton
Company: Cut to the Chase
Director(s): Bob Carlton, Fredrick "Frido" Ruth (movement)
Design: Rodney Ford
Musical Director(s): Julian Littman (musical supervision), Greg Last
Lighting: Mark Dymock
Sound: Ben Harrison