Return to the Forbidden Planet

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

Richard O?Brien, James Earl Adair, Simon Jessop, Greg Last (Navigation Officer), Jane Milligan, Natasha Moore, Sean Needham, Mark Newnham (Ewan Watami), Fredrick 'Frido' Ruth, Hannah Howcroft (Young Miranda)

Creatives/Company

Author: Bob Carlton
Producer: Queen's Theatre Hornchurch
Director: Bob Carlton
Design: Rodney Ford
Lighting: Mark Dymock
Choreographer: Fredrick 'Frido' Ruth
Sound: Rick Clarke
Music: Julian Littman (musical supervision and arrangements)
Musical Director: Greg Last