PIPPIN

From the mind that brought us Godspell and Wicked

Brought to you by the people that brought you Patrick Marbers 'Closer' and Caryl Churchill's aclaimed 'A Number', Evaporating Sun bring you...

DISTANT BODIES

Out in the desert where the telescope dishes slowly feel up to the sky five people meet, they’ve met before.

A hilarious backstage romp full of slamming doors, falling trousers ... and damned plates of sardines!

In 1973 Rocky Horror was performed at the London Royal Court Theatre Upstairs for the very first time, in 1974 the film was made that would start a world-wide revolution (almost single-handedly) that would enable people to put their frocks on, take their clothes off, and realise that their sexuality was something that they could embrace, no matter what the flavour. "Don’t Dream It, Be It!" became a mantra for the time, and that time lasted through the first Mardi Gras March, the Belmore Park Hotel Drag-Shows, the shoulder-pad-wearing, Pete’s Beat attending, Cappriccios dancing set. Through, the Midnight Shift-gyrating, backroom-fondling, Late-night-Hoyts-screening, back-row heavy-breathing, pool-ball-sized-eye-dancing DCM and Exchange Hotel Days, through Mardi Gras’ renaming, rebirthing, Anniversary-marching halcyon days. And you know what? Rocky Horror, and the safe accepting space it generated, was a part of ALL of that.

This production is a classic English comedy about an upstanding and knighted Member of Parliament who is campaigning against permissiveness. But, is he as upstanding as he appears? After inviting a “friend” to his flat for a cosy evening while his wife is away, he has many unexpected and unwelcome visitors who turn his night into a panic stricken series of calamities, as all concerned attempt to cover up the truth.