The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Shown: 11 May 2002
(there are 25 pics from the Rocky Horror Night here)

UK 1975
96 minutes
Directed by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien
Leading players - Tim Curry, Little Nell, Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon.

Synopsis

Brad and Janet, two ordinary young Americans, get caught up in a dastardly plot to create a new being in an old house in the middle of nowhere. Will the mad scientist get foiled? Will Brad and Janet get away safely? And what of the floor show (yah ha hah)?

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Who cares! If you want to watch the film (as they say on stage) - rent it, if you want to know what it's all about - slip on some Fishnets and a Basque and join what will be a very 'different' film for the JFS. Do not expect to sit and watch, or even understand the film; instead it is a musical feast of cinematographic interaction between the cast and audience that make this film like nothing you will have seen before at the Jersey Arts Centre.

The screening is not for the faint-hearted or those easily offended, taking as it does, pokes at all the sexual hypocrisy and prejudices that existed then and now. Things have come a long way since this small show was produced at the Theatre Upstairs in London. With fan clubs all round the world the Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of the best loved cult films with the audience answering back to the film cast, dancing and wearing the most outrageous costumes. Come and join the unconventional conventionalists in this trip of a lifetime on a night out you will remember for a very long time. For an idea of what is in store check out www.timewarp.org.uk.