Return To The Forbidden Planet

Return to the Forbidden Planet is an award winning Rock ‘n’ Roll musical that has been wowing audiences for over 20 years. The show is the brainchild of Bob Carlton and is loosely based on the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and integrates the great works of Shakespeare and the hits of the 50’s and 60’s.

Packed full of Rock’n’Roll numbers, Good Vibrations, Wipeout, Young Girl, She’s Not There and Shake Rattle and Roll to name but a few and full of high energy dance numbers, this show will have you captivated (and singing along!) from start to finish.

On a stormy night way back in the winter of 2009, 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 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 light 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. The adventure begins..