DR SKETCHY’S Anti-Art School have made an appearance in Rocky Horror garb in the Basement at City Screen, York, to highlight the first ever City Screen showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Sunday night.
“Dr Sketchy’s is always a lively night and it often references films which are coming to the cinema,” says City Screen marketing manager Dave Taylor. “In this case it’s the Rocky Horror film, which really is a cult classic and it’s surprising we’ve never shown it before.”
The Dr Sketchy’s art collective of Jay Sillence, Amy Harris and Tonks gathered at their usual Basement haunt, taking Rocky Horror’s burlesque theme for the evening’s sketching and entertainment. Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School’s York branch is one of more than 100 set up since 2005 in cities around the globe, from Akron to Zagreb, and it features a mix of “eccentric characters, burlesque starlets, fetish models, drag queens and much more”.
Jim Sharman’s 1975 cult musical comedy The Rocky Horror Picture Show (12A) will be shown on Sunday at 8.30pm. Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and writer/creator Richard O’Brien star in the camp story of all-American couple Brad and Janet facing a night of frights and saucy frolics at the hands of Dr Frank N Furter when their car breaks down in a . Box office: 0871 902 5726 or at picturehouses.co.uk
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