DOMINION THEATRE

From Olivier Award-winning playwright Ben Elton QUEEN's Brian May and Roger Taylor!

The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete! Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all the musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in advance.

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and write their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody.

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?

He’s just a poor boy. From a poor family. But the Ga Ga Cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to Oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rhye. Who is Galileo? Where is the Hairy One’s lost axe? Where is the place of living rock?

Anyway the wind blows.

Dates

Previews from: 22 April 2002
Opening night: 14 May 2002

Audience

Age Recommendation 10+. Children under 4 years age of age will not be admitted to the Dominion Theatre. Please note that strobe lighting is used in this performance.

Run time

2 hours and 40 minutes with a 15 minute intermission.

Show times

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
Matinee	-	-	-	-	-	2:30	-
Evening	7:30	7:30	7:30	7:30	7:30	7:30	-

Additional information

Extra matinee last Wed of every month and Weds in school holidays.