Since winning the prestigious Channel 4 So You Think You’re Funny Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, Rob Rouse has toured the world for the last 27 years! Fortunately, over a quarter of a century in ‘the biz’ hasn’t made him (me – obviously I’m writing this) in the slightest bit sensible, and he’s […]
Join our upcoming 5-week improv course - perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike. Adults only. No scripts. No pressure. Just a playful and welcoming space to invent characters, create stories, […]
Professor Slug is an eccentric expert on invertebrates who helps bugs out with their buggy problems – and you can too! Get as strong as an ant! Teach a bee how to buzz! And help a dung beetle make a pooey perfume for its big date… This interactive show is packed full of colourful puppets, […]
Summer 2026, Miracle Theatre will bring their magical twist and love of laughter to the classic story of Peer Gynt. Young Peer is a lazy dreamer, who misinterprets Shakespeare’s advice “To thine own self be true” to mean “Look after number one”! He chases after riches and pleasure and lives a life of moral failure […]
Join our upcoming 5-week improv course - perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike. Adults only. No scripts. No pressure. Just a playful and welcoming space to invent characters, create stories, […]
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero […]
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they […]
Dirty Laundry returns to the Merlin for its biggest summer show yet – headlined by the unstoppable Diz Undone (formerly Dizraeli). Rapper, poet, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Diz is “a genre of his own”. From his cult debut Engurland / City Shanties to the explosive Joy Machine, his work fuses hip-hop, post-punk, and jazz into something […]
Starcast Companies and Troupes present Hadestown Teen Edition, an intriguing folk opera that weaves two love stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone. Blending folk and New Orleans jazz, […]
Starcast Companies and Troupes present Hadestown Teen Edition, an intriguing folk opera that weaves two love stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone. Blending folk and New Orleans jazz, […]
Join our upcoming 5-week improv course - perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike. Adults only. No scripts. No pressure. Just a playful and welcoming space to invent characters, create stories, […]
On sale to Friends of Frome Festival Fri 15 May General on sale Sun 17 May A Special Gala Performance to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Frome Festival “King of Fools” is a new musical comedy written by former Frome Festival Director Martin Dimery in musical collaboration with Helen Turner, formerly of the Style Council and […]
