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Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and the 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet" (which itself drew its plot loosely from "The Tempest"). It was billed as "Shakespeare's forgotten rock and roll masterpiece". "Return to the Forbidden Planet" started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open-air performance in a tent. A revised version of the musical opened, indoors, at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid-1980s. It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in London. After some rework