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Tickets are now on sale for Festival Players next show, Return to the Forbidden Planet, at Comberton Village College, 13-16 January (incl. Saturday Matinee).

Come aboard the starship ‘Albatross’ and join us 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’ (plus lots of bits from his other plays), iconic music of the 50’s and 60’s 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 questions and more are answered in the next thrilling episode of “Return to the Forbidden Planet”!

*Polarity Reversal may occur during performance!

To buy your tickets, choose your performance and follow the links below.

Wednesday 13th January
Thursday 14th January
Friday 15th January
Saturday 16th January (matinee)
Saturday 16th January (evening show)

Please note that the start times are incorrectly stated on the We Got Tickets site – evening performances will start at 7.45, and the matinee at 2.30 (and not 7.15 and 2pm as stated – those are ‘doors open’ times). We are getting these times corrected!

Festival Players are delighted to be presenting LEGALLY BLONDE – the Musical from 26th May- 4th June 2016, directed by James Dowson.

The Preview night for the show will be held at 7.45pm on Wednesday 6th January at Cambridge University Press – just turn up at Cambridge University Press, University Printing House, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2 8BS. Auditions will be at the Larkum Studio at the ADC on Tuesday 26th and Saturday 30th January 2016 (booking opens on/after the preview night).

This is a fast, feisty, fabulous fun show which follows the trials (literally!) and tribulations of Elle as she journeys from blonde bimbo to legal eagle.

So come to our preview night, meet the director, find out about the parts, have a sing-a-long and get your audition booked! See you there!

Get to know your Return to the Forbidden Planet characters with these top trump cards. Who comes out on top for ‘Rock’n’Rollability’? Who’s bottom of the pile when it comes to IQ? Whose Shakespeareyness makes them number one? And while you’re at it, don’t forget to book your tickets for the show – five performances from January 13th-16th, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (matinee and evening shows).