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 ... With Special Effects by Gerry Anderson

Cast/Performers

Robert McCormick (Captain Tempest), James Earl Adair (Dr Prospero), Middleton Mann (Ariel), Mark Crossland (Cookie), Nicola Bolton (Science Officer), Kevin Oliver Jones (Bosun Arras), Philip Bateman (Navigation Officer), Sarah Beaumont (Miranda), Gemma Buckenham (Claudia Day), Rebecca Cameron (Lea Tard), Graeme Budd (Mal Function), Philip Reed (Earl E Warning), Patrick Moore (Chorus), Rebecca Ptaszynski (The Infant Miranda)

Creatives/Company

Author: Bob Carlton
Company(s): Pola Jones, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Director(s): Bob Carlton, Kate Edgar (Music and Production), Philip Bateman (Touring Musical Director), Matt Devitt (Associate), Carole Todd (Musica Staging)
Design: Rodney Ford
Costume(s): Sally Lesser, Adrian Rees (Ariel Costume Design)
Sound: Bobby Aitken
Lighting: Chris Jaeger