Creatures of The Night!

By Emma

During 1986, the Rocky group, under the guise of "Creatures of the Night", had two purposes: they introduced the film whenever it played at a cinema, and they performed a mini-show called the Rocky Horror Revue. The cast at that point was as follows:

Frank: Jim
Janet: Angie
Brad: Gordon
Riff: Nicky
Magenta: Ellie
Space Magenta: Lorna
Columbia: Sandra
Rocky: Rodney
Narrator: Martin
Director: Alice
Plus: David McKillop

{I don’t know what David’s role really was, but he did lots of printing and copying for the group at the office he worked in. He sent me lots of little bits and pieces, flyers etc!}

I was quite overwhelmed by this motley crew - they were, it seemed, quite a wild crowd and all quite a bit older than me. However, when they weren’t winding me up, they were a cool bunch of people! Rehearsals took place every Thursday at the QM Union, which became a regular haunt to me at the tender age of 15.

The important thing to realise about Creatures, though, was that they were easily split into two halves: the folk who were into Rocky, and the folk who were into Amateur Dramatics. Eventually, when the group would fall apart, the Rocky contingent keep going, change and grow into something else again.

Over the next 8 years, Creatures of the Night performed at the following venues:

1986 Shows

1987 Shows

1988 Shows

1989 Shows

1990 Shows

1991 Shows

1992 Shows

1993 Shows

1994 Shows

Updated: 15/01/04