The Rocky Horror Show
Follow squeaky-clean sweethearts Brad and Janet on an adventure they’ll never forget, with the scandalous Frank ‘n Furter, rippling Rocky and vivacious Magenta. Get ready for a night of fun, frolics and frivolity in this thrilling production of Richard O’Brien’s classic original script! Bursting at the seams with timeless classics, including Sweet Transvestite, Damn it Janet, and of course, the pelvic-thrusting Time Warp, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horrors show is a non-stop party!
Ready to thrill you with its frothy, fun and naughty moments, this is the boldest bash of them all, so sharpen those stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life!
Don’t dream it – be it!
From 8th February To 13th February
Times Mon - Thurs 8pm Fri & Sat 6pm & 9pm
Prices Mon - Thurs 8pm & Sat 6pm £29, £27, £25; Fri 6pm £16; Fri & Sat 9pm £32.50, £30.50, £28.50.
Concessions £1 off Over 60s, Under 26s & Unwaged
Venue Festival Theatre
Genre Musicals
Brilliant night out, 10 of us dressed up for the evening high heels, fish nets etc etc......which just added to the fun. Would go again and have already recommended to friends. 
Great show really enjoyed it felt nice to get my fishnets and boots on again!
A billion stars!!! A group of about 12 of us went, dressed as characters or just in burlesque style clothing... we had an amazing night and Frank'n'Furter was absolutely BRILLIANT. Stunning, beautiful, charismatic, I can't even express how much I recommend this show - even to Rocky 'Virgins' - only 4 of the people in our group had even seen the film but those who hadn't are now converted and 8 of them have ordered the DVD!!! I would't hesitate to see this show again .. and again... and again!!!
If I had not seen the audience attending the penultimate show at the Saturday matinee I would not have believed the descriptions of many of the costumes off stage replicating the costumes on stage. Those also there would have been unable to miss the man allocated a front row seat before which he seemed to stand defiantly so that we could all stare at his black corseted torso and thong bared arse and black stocking-ed legs. His front row neighbours both male and female adopted the same style which was so common that it seemed as if a style uniform.
The dominant dance tune of this modern opera called Time Warp brought the full house to its feet and in row K near the back of the Circle the view of the stage was hidden behind waving hands and swaying bodies mimicking the movements on the stage. It was apparent that the spectators were fans of the show full of familiarity of the text and of this dance and came not so much for entertainment but for participation. It made one wonder as to what was the normal lifestyle of these mature citizens many as couples similarly dressed and who must have arrived in their black corsets and short skirts or shorts and fishnet stockings from the cars or transports that brought them through the streets of Malvern to the theatre.
Those others of us more conventionally attired had our own reasons for visiting the play and for me a return after my first and only previous viewing in 1975 down the Kings Road; for from its 1973 opening it has been going global ever since. The Google website reveals some 7 million hits. This production is a multi language rock big business musical phenomenon.
The audience seemed balanced between the sexes and yet it has an overtly homo-erotic angle as the key characters strut in their cod or cock pieces and their corsets and not much else with the main relationship between Frank the showman scientist who has created the perfect male called Rocky with the brain of a medical transplant victim for his admiration and amusement. Set as if in a sinister gothic castle the spooky atmosphere is enhanced by the sly seduction of an innocent passing couple behaving as naive virgins seeking safety from their troubled journey only to find themselves as toys to be used and abused by the manipulating dangerous murderous Frank who controls his misfit staff and hunch backed manager called Riff Raff.
This dark script has evolutionary connections with the softer shows of Hair and of Jesus Christ Superstar but seems also to have origins with Hitchcock and the creepy scene in Pyscho. Dripping blood on the posters represents the psychopath who charms his victims.
This day also saw the launch of military campaign in Afghanistan placing brave young men at risk of death to remove armed Taliban activists from the community with their brutal fundamentalist Islam - which simply could not tolerate the dancing semi naked females cavorting in public as the staple images of the Rocky Horror Show. But then nor would those Texan Christian fundamentalists who believe the precise words of the Bible and the seven day creation theory have any enthusiasm or endorsement for what they would see as vulgar theatrical decadence. Perhaps this play symbolises the liberal freedoms our armies defend.
Merging Frankenstein and HG Wells with Elvis the Rocky Horror Show allows the audience to escape from troubles outside by joining enthusiastically with cruel musical chaos inside.
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