Vanessa Scammell

Is it because if this information were to get out, the entire case would be seen to be a beat up?

Or is it because the ABC and Fairfax who published the initial story simply won't allow for the other side to be told?

As C1 herself said,

The big question is this.

How did this non-serious mucking around and joking around become sexual assault four years later?

The Rocky Horror Show tour of 2014 coincided with the 40th anniversary of Richard O'Brien's masterpiece and the production that was being brought out to Australia had been conceived by a wonderful team, a UK director and an Australian choreographer.

It was a version of the show that really played up the schlock horror component of the original script.

It was fun, visually delightful and high octane.

The bed scene, which has always been one of the iconic moments of both the show and the original motion picture, was in this production cleverly directed so that the characters of Frank and Janet were standing upright in a bed set.

but which appeared to the audience as though they were lying down in the bed, their heads on pillows with bed covers.

The scene as it was played out in the Australian production was in fact one of the funniest and most popular scenes in the show and was quite unlike the previous UK production, which was far more sexually explicit.

If you go online to the link in the About section and watch this UK version, you will witness the Frank character holding the breasts of Janet.

You see him kissing and moving down the front of her body as part of the direction.

But make no mistake.

This was not the case in the Australian production.

During rehearsals, Craig requested that this scene be based on suggestion rather than explicit actions.

Rather, he wanted to do an over-the-top performance, using humour and vocalisations to make the scene funny and unforgettable.

And so the scene was workshopped during the rehearsal period with C1, Craig and the director, until a blueprint was decided upon.

The bed scene was therefore X-rated not because of the explicit actions of the performers, but because of implied actions and suggestion of the direction.

For the scene ultimately left the audience having to use their imagination as to what was going on in those moments whilst Frank was under the covers, out of the audience's sight.