Toledo Museum of Art Marries The Tempest and Forbidden Planet

Perhaps best remembered for a line in the Rocky Horror Picture Show’s opening theme, Forbidden Planet is debatable as a film classic. But there’s no debating that it is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and therefore worthy of inclusion in the Toledo Museum of Art’s ongoing Shakespeare on Film series. Taking the Bard’s dark play into space, the film details a spacecraft landing on Altair IV, a planet run by a mysterious scientist, his beautiful daughter and Robby the Robot. Stars Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis. EDM enthusiasts, take note: Forbidden Planet is the first commercial film to use an entirely electronic music score. In 2013, the film was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.

2pm | Sunday | November 27
Toledo Museum of Art Little Theater | 2445 Monroe St.
419-255-8000 | toledomuseum.org | Free

Perhaps best remembered for a line in the Rocky Horror Picture Show’s opening theme, Forbidden Planet is debatable as a film classic. But there’s no debating that it is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and therefore worthy of inclusion in the Toledo Museum of Art’s ongoing Shakespeare on Film series. Taking the Bard’s dark play into space, the film details a spacecraft landing on Altair IV, a planet run by a mysterious scientist, his beautiful daughter and Robby the Robot. Stars Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis. EDM enthusiasts, take note: Forbidden Planet is the first commercial film to use an entirely electronic music score. In 2013, the film was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.

2pm | Sunday | November 27
Toledo Museum of Art Little Theater | 2445 Monroe St.
419-255-8000 | toledomuseum.org | Free