Rocky horror picture show edinburgh 2025

Jan 21 2025 | By Tom RalphsMore

★★★★☆  Still Rocking

Playhouse: Mon 20 – Sat 25 Jan 2025
Review by Tom Ralphs

While the new US President was busy signing an order making it clear what he thinks about the trans community, a sweet transvestite transexual from Transylvania was taking a different approach as Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show returned to the Playhouse with its customary mix of swagger, glitz, innuendo and audience call backs.

A celebration of the weird and the wonderful, Rocky Horror still delights more than 50 years on from its first appearance.

The story remains the same as it ever was, as Brad and Janet find themselves lost in the middle of nowhere on a rainy night with a car that has just suffered a blow out. What at first appears to be a lucky break turns into something else entirely as the large castle-like house in the distance turns out to be the last place that anyone should go to call roadside assistance.

Beyond its doors, the servant Riff Raff and his sister Mag