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

Cymon Allen (Cookie), Marianne Benedict (Gloria), John Elkington (Prospero), Emily Grace (Miranda), William Wolfe Hogan (Captain Tempest), Robin Johnson (Bosun), Wendy Paver (Navigation Officer), Dale Superville (Ariel), Brian May (Dr. CBE - on-screen Narrator)

Creatives/Company

Author: Bob Carlton
Producer(s): Haymarket Theatre, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Northcott Theatre Exeter, Lyric Theatre Belfast
Director(s): Fine Time Fontayne, Neil Gore (music)
Design: Sara Perks
Choreographer: Bev Edmunds
Lighting: Simon Hutchings
Sound: Dan Steele