For those who are new to Richard O’Brien’s creation, or those, like me, who have proudly been a part of Frank-N-Furter’s freaky found family for years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show invites you to give yourself over to absolute pleasure this Halloween.
There’s a light over at the Frankenstein place, and it’s beckoning you into the wicked, wonderful and always wild world of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a stage show and movie that, fifty years on, continues to thrill. So come along. The Master doesn’t like to be kept waiting this Halloween.
Everyone who hasn’t spent their life under a rock has a favourite moment, line and song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, whether it be Janet (Susan Sarandon) embracing her long-repressed desires as she sings, “Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me. I wanna be dirty! Or Dr Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) throwing off his cloak and belting out “I’m just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual Transylvania.” Every minute, every tune and every character carves a place in the memory, but how did The Rocky Horror Picture Show become the ultimate immersive theatrical experience? Damn it, Janet! We need answers!
Well, in a nutshell, Rocky Horror defies the sexual shame we are trained to feel from a young age, offering us a liberating, sexually free and always strange journey into what it means to be human, even if our guide Dr Frank-N-Furter isn’t. The Rocky Horror Picture Show encourages us to break the chains of repression and oppression that restrict us and to embrace our freaky side. It shouts, “Don’t dream it, be it,” and in a world where restrictive conservatism is once again on the march, that is a call we should all answer.
For those who are new to Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror, or those, like me, who have proudly been a part of Frank-N-Furter’s freaky found family for years, Rocky Horror invites you to give yourself over to absolute pleasure this Halloween. So what are you waiting for? Pour some wine, dust off your fishnet stockings, put on your high heels, and “Come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab,” where you will “shiver with antici…pation.”
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