Lock up your daughters - and sons - because that sweet transsexual transvestite from Transylvania, Dr Frank N' Furter, is back in Brighton.

And looking around the audience he seems to have spawned quite a few offspring. There were wigs, basques and fishnet stockings aplenty. There were even some on the girls.

Richard O'Brien's musical spoof of the old RKO horror movies took on cult status after the film version was taken up by campus students in America. On its screening the young audiences would join in with the dialogue and participate in the action by throwing rice for the wedding scene and squirting water pistols during the rainstorm.

This audience participation, along with witty heckling, soon spilled over into the stage productions and has now become an established tradition, with the audience's contribution becoming just as important as that of the actors.

Although this current production is lively, well acted and sung, the usual bond between cast and audience seems to be missing.

Compared to previous productions the ripostes to the heckling are muted. It's as though the cast are reluctant to break through the fourth wall.

Traditionally the Narrator bears the brunt of the interjections and is able to respond with wit to the hecklers. Steve Pemberton, in this role, disappointed. Being himself from the bizarre world of The League of Gentlemen, he lacked the shock element of seeing staid predecessors, such as Nicholas Parsons and Russell Harty, being involved in outrageous behaviour.

But David Bedella is terrific as Frank. He looks stunning and achieves so well the dual nature of his sexuality - one minute strong and handsome, the next melting into soft femininity.

Criticisms aside this is a fun evening with strong performances from the rest of the cast and a forceful band to drive the rock 'n' roll songs. It even had this ageing reviewer up on his feet doing the Time Warp.

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