Return To The Forbidden Planet

Festival Players welcome you aboard the starship Albatross and join them in an interstellar rock n roll adventure. Your crew of highly trained space cadets are ready to whisk you across the galaxy whilst performing a host of cosmic classics by Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, James Brown, Nina Simone and many more.

Bob Carlton’s award winning musical is a bizarre and unique blend of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, iconic music of the 50s and 60s and the Sci-Fi cult classic film The Forbidden Planet. It might sound illogical, captain, but the result is an evening’s entertainment of meteoric proportions.

Will the brave Captain Tempest and his crew unravel the mystery of Planet D’Illyria? Why are the mad Doctor Prospero and his beautiful daughter Miranda the only inhabitants? What secret is the ship’s science officer hiding? Can a robot do the twist? All these question and more are answered in the next thrilling episode of Return to the Forbidden Planet!