From Rocky Horror to Forbidden Planet, sci-fi B movies and rock and roll nostalgia have been all the rage.Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's 1982 stage musical even has the parallel-universe luxury of being inspired by one such feature film only to be adapted into another.
Based on Roger Corman's 1960 yarn about a blood-sucking plant who eats up a Skid Row flower shop, Little Shop of Horrors isn't the obvious choice to open Pitlochry Festival Theatre's Summer Rep season.
Nor, in John Durnin's production, does it fully spark into the sort of big campy life required to make it such a ridiculous pleasure, even as it tackles how greed and money corrupt in a dog-eat-dog – or rather, plant-eats-man – world.
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