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Return to the Forbidden Planet

Return to the Forbidden Planet

10 Jun 2025 - 14 Jun 2025

Fasten your seatbelts, return your tray tables to the upright position and prepare to blast off! In this Olivier-award-winning musical, the many works of Shakespeare are aligned with a fabulous rock n roll score to create a fun-filled, jiving-in-the-aisles musical. Loosely based on Shakespeares The Tempest and the 1956 sci-fi classic film Forbidden Planet, Return to the Forbidden Planet finds a spaceship, helmed by Captain Tempest, making an emergency landing on the uncharted planet DIllyria. The only residents there are the mad scientist Doctor Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and their robot Ariel. They were banished into hyperspace when Miranda was just a baby, and she has known no other world than this. Featuring rock nroll hits of the 50s and 60s (Great Balls of Fire, The Monster Mash, Good Vibrations, and others), a B-movie atmosphere, and dialogue in iambic pentameter, Return to the Forbidden Planet is Shakespeares unwritten rock n roll masterpiece. Throw in a roller-skating robot, unrequited love, and a scary space monster, and youve got one groovy show!
Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

23 Jan 2026 - 1 Feb 2026

Think you know Panto? You don't know Jack! Back for 2026, it's WAMDS annual panto. Expect the usual chaos, songs, dancing and all round family humour! Book early to avoid disappointment!

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