A fabulous time is to be had at the Victory Theatre, which is putting on a foot-stomping season of the great Rocky Horror Show.

Brendan van Rhyn is perfect in the role of Frank-n-Furter

IT'S just a jump to the left, a step to the right, put your hands on your hips, bend your knees in tight, and have a fabulous evening at the Victory Theatre with the iconic Rocky Horror Show, back in town for its third run at the theatre.

The story is classic, wonderful perversity. A bisexual creature called Frank-n-Furter, with his sidekicks Columbia, Magenta and Riff Raff, sings and dances the time warp, with an evil smile. They live in Transsexual, Transylvania.

Frank-n-Furter uses his fishnet stockings and 10cm heels to rule his castle, making everyone do what he wants them to do. He is a mad scientist and specialises in making wonderful creatures for his own pleasure. His latest creation, Rocky Horror, is beautiful and pliant, unquestioning and always smiling.

And when strangers come along, innocent and bashful, just wanting to use his phone, he welcomes them in, takes them to his bosom, and shows them his ways. But other people, who don't bend to his ways, are dealt with swiftly, soon floating in frozen plastic bags, red and bulbous.

His castle is perfect - silky black carpeting, sexy black leather seating, cobwebs dripping from the walls, with a great five-piece band strumming or blasting music that fits his every mood. Phantoms float about every dark corridor, their wispy hair and black shadowy eyes waiting for his next command. They would never dare rock the boat.

Even Dr Scott, a fellow scientist, is corruptible, and very soon joins the fishnet brigade, dancing from his wheelchair and smiling sweetly.

But everything is not right in the castle - some are plotting revenge - and Magenta and Riff Raff, dressed in shiny silver outfits, disguising a nasty hunched back, reveal their true selves.

Brendan van Rhyn, Clayton Heroldt, Tamara Dey, Ryan Flynn, Lorri Glajchen, Dolly Louw, Lyall Ramsden and the rest of the gang obviously had a great time on stage, directed by Maralin Vanrenen, choreographed by Vicky Friedman, costumed by Margo Fleisch, and moving to the agreeable beats of Clifford Cooper and his quintet.

And the Victory Theatre loved the performance as well. It last staged the Rocky Horror Show in 1997, to packed houses, and before that in 1992. Its 470 seats will, no doubt, be filled for the duration of the latest run until the end of April. Tuesdays are half-price nights.

The Rocky Horror Show is on at the Victory Theatre, Louis Botha Avenue, in Houghton, until the end of April.

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