December 2014
A Christmas Carol
Merlin Theatre Company. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Find out more »January 2015
Yorke Dance Project presents Figure Ground
Yorke Dance Project return to the Merlin Theatre with a rich and dynamic programme of new work. Bringing…
Find out more »March 2015
Around the World in 80 Days
Presented by Selwood Academy. A cast of 100 children present the Somerset premiere of a new musical production…
Find out more »Fruitcake
Ten Commandments from the Psych Ward. Written and performed by Bob Gee. "A one man thespian army!" "A…
Find out more »April 2015
The Hard Problem
Tom Stoppard's first play for the stage sicne Rock n Roll in 2006, and his first for the…
Find out more »Frome Drama club present ‘Tom Jones’
This joyfully bawdy 18th century romp 'Tom Jones' dramatised by Joan Macalpine, sees Tom Jones a foundling, adopted…
Find out more »May 2015
SAFE
ZoieLogic Dance Company present SAFE: Five male dancers telling the story of the heroic 1930s construction workers who…
Find out more »Man and Superman
Ralph Fiennes will return to the National as John Tanner in Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, directed by…
Find out more »Ballet Central
A dazzling programme of ballet, neoclassical, contempoary and narrative dance. Recommended for all ages.
Find out more »The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – magical family fun
The original boy-wizard story most afmously told in Disney's Fantasia. Performance outside in the Ecos Amphitheatre. Recommended 5+years.
Find out more »July 2015
Appalachian ‘flatfooting’ Step-dance Workshop
Appalachian ‘flatfooting’ Step-dance Workshop by ‘Buffalo Gals’ lead dancer Sibs Riesen – a percussive Appalachian Flatfoot and Buckdance…
Find out more »The Magnificent Three
Award-winning Miracle Theatre's visit to the Wild West - a 'spaghetti western' with a comical look at gender…
Find out more »The Second Best Bed
Liz Grand from Worcester Rep Company stars as Anne Hathaway on the night of Shakespeare's funeral: a critically…
Find out more »Glenn Tilbrook
Singer-songwriter Glenn Tilbrook presents songs from his solo albums with hits from the seventies onwards.
Find out more »Let Me Play The Lion Too
Michael Pennington, distinguished stage, television and screen actor, reads from his recent autobiography, 'Let Me Play the Lion…
Find out more »Everyman
BAFTA winner and Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) takes the title role in this…
Find out more »Rent
Frome’s finest musical theatre performers attempt to produce a rock musical in just 24 hours. This exciting fundraiser…
Find out more »The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare's uncompromising tragedy, directed by Polly Findlay. In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its…
Find out more »September 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray
European Arts Company present 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde. The stage adaptation of Wilde's novel…
Find out more »October 2015
The Ballad of Martha Brown
Dorset-based company, Angel Exit Theatre, present 'The Ballad of Martha Brown, a macabre comedy about the last woman…
Find out more »Frome Film Club: Ida
Ida. Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski | Poland 2013 | 82 mins | cert 12A Abandoned in a convent as…
Find out more »Avenue Q
Merlin Theatre Company presents AVENUE Q with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by…
Find out more »NTL – Hamlet
A National Theatre Live filmed theatre screening of Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. Directed by…
Find out more »November 2015
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Filmed theatre screening (Cert PG) direct from New York, an ingeniously imaginative and visual production directed by Julie…
Find out more »The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Tic Tac Toe attempt to cover all thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays in less than two hours in a…
Find out more »Locke
Frome Film Club present Locke (UK: directed by Stephen Knight; 85 mins; cert 15) Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy),…
Find out more »Ring Around the Moon by Jean Anouilh
Frome Drama Club presents Anouilh’s delightfully frothy romantic comedy, set on the evening of Mme Desmortes’ grand ball…
Find out more »Of Mice and Men
NTLive Filmed Theatre Screening (Cert 12A): the hit Broadway production Of Mice and Men, filmed on stage in…
Find out more »The Winter’s Tale with Judi Dench
The Winter's Tale is the first of a new season of Kenneth Branagh Theatre Live Productions broadcast from…
Find out more »December 2015
The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »Jane Eyre (NTLive)
National |Theatre Live presents Jane Eyre, a co-production with Bristol Old Vic, based on the novel by Charlotte…
Find out more »The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »The Little Mermaid
The Merlin's Christmas show this year is based on the original fairy tale and has been specially written…
Find out more »Screen Acting Workshop
All Day Event. Mark McGann delivers another of his amazing acting Workshops at the Merlin. These unique opportunities…
Find out more »February 2016
Sensory Book Club
Open Story Tellers: Come and enjoy classic stories made accessible for all. We bring exciting books to life…
Find out more »National Theatre Live – As You Like It
A live screening of Shakespeare's As You Like It direct from the National Theatre
Find out more »The Marvellous Mechanical Mesmerist
Hypnoarts Diversity Theatre Company, supported by National Lottery Arts Council of England, weld the art of steampunk stage…
Find out more »March 2016
Acting Alone
Ava Hunt Theatre present Acting Alone by Ava Hunt and Tilly Branson, a performance inspired by the people…
Find out more »Upbeat!
Forest Forge Theatre present Upbeat! This buoyant and poetic new play follows the story of a brother and…
Find out more »Winter Sleep
Frome Film Club presents Winter Sleep. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Turkey 2104. 196 mins. Cert 15
Find out more »Zones of Avoidance
ZoA Poetry Productions presents Zones of Avoidance, an award winning multimedia production which explores a mother's quest to…
Find out more »The Producers
Merlin Theatre Productions and Constructing Excellence South-West present The Producers, by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and…
Find out more »April 2016
Myths and Magic
Following a week of workshops and classes with guest teachers and companies, including the celebrated Mark Bruce Company,…
Find out more »Myths and Magic
Following a week of workshops and classes with guest teachers and companies, including the celebrated Mark Bruce Company,…
Find out more »Stig of the Dump
London Contemporary Theatre presents a dramatization of the timeless children's classic in which caveman Stig becomes a young…
Find out more »Heli
Frome Film Club present Heli (Mexico 2013): director Amat Escalante, 105 mins, Cert 18
Find out more »Shakespeare Live! Frome the RSC Stratford
Hosted by David Tennant on Shakespeare’s birthday, and screened live from Stratford-upon-Avon, this star-studded show celebrates Shakespeare’s plays…
Find out more »Our Town – Frome Drama Club Production
Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Frome Drama Club presents a rare opportunity to see this ground-breaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Find out more »Our Town
Frome Drama Club present Thornton Wilder's American classic, Our Town, directed by Cheryl St. George.
Find out more »May 2016
Stage Acting Master Class with Mark McGann
Drama Direct presents this masterclass with Mark McGann. 10% discount for equity members and former participants, includes signed…
Find out more »All-England Theatre Festival – West of England Final
Four one-act plays which have already won the first two rounds of this national competition at festivals across…
Find out more »My Name is Salt
Frome Film Club presents My Name is Salt (India 2013) 92 mins, Cert U, documenting the gruelling annual…
Find out more »The Best Thing
Vamos Theatre - a full-mask theatre company - present The Best Thing, a swinging sixties story of unconditional…
Find out more »Images Ballet Company
Images Ballet Company presents fresh and exciting new work from the best and brightest choreographers in the UK.…
Find out more »Zadok Media presents ‘The God Particle’
A quantum physicist and a vicar walk into a bar… joining forces to solve a perplexing mystery, they…
Find out more »Illyria presents DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD by Roald Dahl,
In its 25th anniversary Illyria, now one of the country’s foremost interpreters of Roald Dahl’s work, is proud…
Find out more »June 2016
Big Wooden Horse presents Monstersaurus!
From the creators of Aliens Love Underpants: One day Monty found a book ‘Inventions Very Rare’ Create yourself…
Find out more »NTLive Filmed theatre encore screening of ‘The Audience’
Winner of three Tony Awards® and two Olivier Awards, National Theatre Live’s smash-hit broadcast of the original West…
Find out more »Royal Shakespeare Company FILMED THEATRE SCREENING Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word…
Find out more »Avalon Promotions presents Edinburgh Comedy Previews
Three nights of comedy featuring six upcoming stars of stand-up before they go to the Edinburgh Festival Night…
Find out more »Avalon Promotions presents Edinburgh Comedy Previews
Three nights of comedy from upcoming stand-up stars, before they go to the Edinburgh Festival. Night 2 : Adam Hess…
Find out more »Avalon Promotions presents Edinburgh Comedy Previews
Three nights of comedy featuring six upcoming stars of stand-up before they go to the Edinburgh Festival. Night…
Find out more »Breakfast at Tiffany’s: a Merlin screen classic
Cert PG film starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, and Patricia Neal Based on Truman Capote’s novel, this is…
Find out more »The Tempest by William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on’… Quantum Theatre present Shakespeare's magical and enchanting comedy, The…
Find out more »July 2016
Frome Stop War presents Where R Those WMDs?
Broadcasters and journalists Dan Glazebrook and Neil Clark are joined by musical performers Clayton Blizzard and acclaimed international…
Find out more »Frome Wessex Camera Club presents An Evening with Photographer William Cheung FRPS A FROME FESTIVAL EVENT
William Cheung FRPS has been a keen photographer for over three decades and has been a member of…
Find out more »Branagh Theatre Live presents Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live season continues with a new vision of Shakespeare’s heartbreaking tale of forbidden…
Find out more »Noisy Oyster presents HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY PIE: A FROME FESTIVAL EVENT
When the king asks for a higgledy piggledy pie for his supper the royal chefs are thrown into…
Find out more »Noisy Oyster presents HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY PIE: A FROME FESTIVAL EVENT
When the king asks for a higgledy piggledy pie for his supper the royal chefs are thrown into…
Find out more »Dr Phil Hammond: A FROME FESTIVAL EVENT
Doctor, comedian, writer and broadcaster Phil Hammond makes a welcome return to the Frome Festival with a new…
Find out more »PEE WEE ELLIS AND THE FUNKA-NOVA BAND: A FROME FESTIVAL EVENT
A fabulous Festival finale. In the newly formed Funka-Nova Quartet, Frome’s own Pee Wee Ellis and the acclaimed…
Find out more »Peter Pan Auditions
Merlin Theatre Productions continues its string of sell-out, high quality Christmas productions with this year’s Christmas offering; Peter…
Find out more »Illyria presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Perennially popular, universally loved, the play follows four couples – three human and one fairy – whose passions…
Find out more »Almeida Theatre Filmed Theatre Screening: Richard III
A debut live theatre screening of Richard III from the Almeida Theatre with Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave. This…
Find out more »August 2016
Tic Tac Toe: THE SCANDALOUS LOVE OF OSCAR WILDE
It is 6th April 1895 and Oscar Wilde waits alone at the Cadogan Hotel for the knock on the…
Find out more »Tri.Art Theatre School presents Bugsy Malone
The show of the Oscar nominated, BAFTA winning 70s movie, brought to you by Merlin Associate Company Tri.Art…
Find out more »September 2016
National Theatre Live Filmed Theatre Screening: The Deep Blue Sea
Helen McCrory (Medea and The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre, Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders) returns…
Find out more »Merlin Theatre Production – Legally Blonde Quiz!
In conjunction with MTP's autumn show "Legally Blonde the musical" and to help raise funds for the Merlin…
Find out more »Rob Gee presents Forget Me Not – the Alzheimer’s Whodunnit
Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has died from what appears to be natural causes. Jim…
Find out more »Flamencovision presents Juan Martin’s Flamenco Trio
Juan Martín, a truly awe-inspiring guitarist, composer and all encompassing musician returns to tour the UK with a…
Find out more »Don’t Believe a Word: Mitch Benn
From “the country’s leading musical satirist” (The Times), Mitch Benn, a firm favourite on BBC R4’s The Now…
Find out more »National Theatre Live Filmed Theatre Screening: The Threepenny Opera
Mack the Knife is back in town. In this darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill’s raucous…
Find out more »Emma Golay presents: Sing Out for Cancer!
‘Sing Out For Cancer!’ is a showcase full of all your favourite songs from well known musicals such…
Find out more »Pocket Oxford Theatre Company presents A Double Will! Romeo and Juliet
The Pocket Oxford Theatre Company is excited to bring its versions of two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays to…
Find out more »Pocket Oxford Theatre Company presents A Double Will! Hamlet
The Pocket Oxford Theatre Company is excited to bring its versions of two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays to…
Find out more »Royal Opera House presents Norma (Live screening)
Àlex Ollé of theatre group La Fura dels Baus directs a new production of Bellini’s operatic masterpiece on…
Find out more »Royal Opera House presents Norma (Live screening)
Àlex Ollé of theatre group La Fura dels Baus directs a new production of Bellini’s operatic masterpiece on…
Find out more »Royal Shakespeare Company: Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (Live filmed theatre screening)
Cymbeline is a ruler of a divided Britain. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in…
Find out more »Royal Shakespeare Company Live Filmed Theatre Screening: Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Cymbeline is a ruler of a divided Britain. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in…
Find out more »October 2016
Royal Shakespeare Company LIVE FILMED THEATRE SCREENING King Lear by William Skakespeare
King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his…
Find out more »The Bolshoi Ballet presents FILMED THEATRE SCREENING FROM MOSCOW The Golden Age
A satire of Europe during the Roaring ’20s, with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich and libretto…
Find out more »Royal Opera House presents Così fan tutte by Mozart
Ferrando loves Dorabella and Guglielmo loves Fiordiligi – but their friend Don Alfonso is sceptical. He offers the…
Find out more »Branagh Theatre Live presents The Entertainer by John Osborne
tarring Kenneth Branagh and Greta Scacchi Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures…
Find out more »Austentatious
Austentatious are saddling the horses for a Grand Tour! Join the all-star cast as they improvise a brand…
Find out more »November 2016
Ellen Muriel presents You, Me and the Distance Between Us
Ellen spent 6 months volunteering in Europe’s refugee camps. She gave out clothes and blankets, she made many…
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