COLLEGE students from Mount Kelly performed Return to the Forbidden Planet recently.

Inspired by The Tempest and packed with rock ‘n’ roll classics such as Heard It Through The Grapevine, Teenager in Love, Great Balls of Fire and Gloria, this was Shakespeare as you had never heard or seen it before.

Set on a spaceship, the show boasted thrills, spills and a musical score to die for.

Our galactic heroes blasted off on their mission and the audience were drawn into the strange and sinister world of D’Illyria — a planet inhabited by eccentric scientist, Dr Prospero, his delightful daughter Miranda and Ariel, an ever-faithful roller-skating robot. Not to mention, of course, the obligatory monster, whose wild tentacles threatened all!