Past Performances

The hit Broadway production, filmed on stage in New York by National Theatre Live, comes to the UK.

This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck’s play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a testament to the bonds of friendship.

Frome Drama Club presents Anouilh’s delightfully frothy romantic comedy, set on the evening of Mme Desmortes’ grand ball at the Chateau and full of grotesquely comic characters, mistaken identity and tortuous misadventure, leading of course to a charmingly happy ending…

‘All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’. Thus spoke the great man. But can two noble gentlemen and one lusty wench really cover all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in less than two hours?

The UK’s largest youth drama festival enables over 1,000 primary, secondary, and special schools to stage abridged Shakespeare productions in their local professional theatre. 35,000 young people will take to stages across the UK.

Of all Shakespeare’s plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the most phantasmagorical, with fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers. From the director of The Lion King, Julie Taymor, comes a cinematic experience of the much heralded inaugural stage production.

Watch the youngest pupils take to the stage in the afternoon, then come to the evening performance for a special surprise for both audience and pupils!

Bojangles will be showcasing all kinds of dance including ballet, tap, street and breakdance.

With a host of puppets and a working windmill, Patrick Lynch from Cbeebies shows how Puss fools both the King and the Ogre to put his master at the top. Come and see this classic furry tail – it’s the cat’s whiskers!

Join us for this Disney animated classic as we follow a pampered cocker spaniel named Lady whose comfortable life slips away once her owners have a baby, until she is befriended by the tough stray mutt Tramp…

A piece of comic visual theatre inspired by the real and imaginary worlds of Yorkshire’s literary siblings, presented in Publick Transport’s irreverent style.

Physical theatre collides with stand-up, clowning and improvisation – this promises to be no ordinary Brontë adaptation.

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people.

Henry V is performed in the 600th anniversary year of the Battle of Agincourt. Following his performance as Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II Alex Hassell returns as Henry V.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Part flesh, part felt and packed with heart, winner of the TONY Triple Crown for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Avenue Q is a laugh-out-loud musical.

Angel Exit’s latest original drama is based on the life and times of the last woman publicly hanged in Dorset in 1856. It is a tale of jealousy, passion, a murder, a wrongly-accused horse, a black silk dress and the gawping mob at the hang-fair.

Fresh from a West End run of The Trials of Oscar Wilde, European Arts Company presents this combination of drawing-room comedy and gothic horror. Adapted by Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland, the play is timed to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the story’s publication.

We all love a good hug and none of us more so than that famous king of cuddles, the koala. But just how did the koala learn to hug? Based on the best-selling book by Steven Lee, this charming family musical is especially for children aged three and over to enjoy with their grown ups.

Beckett’s 60-year-old masterpiece is a ground-breaking, anarchic meditation on the meaning of life and death. Part allegory, part burlesque, Beckett’s unique, timeless play moves seamlessly between absurdist comic sketch and captivating philosophical drama.

Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge. National Theatre Live’s 2013 broadcast of the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus returns to theatres and cinemas by popular demand.

West Cornwall, 1895: a once-glorious tin mine is on its last legs. Made in Cornwall and based on a true story, Miracle Theatre’s feature film stars Jenny Agutter, Dudley Sutton and Ben Luxon.

If you like jazz and swing music with a twist of pop you’ll love the sounds of Tom Carpenter and his band. Will I Am describes him as ‘freakin’ awesome’.

This event is a joint fundraiser for Merlin Theatre and Tourettes Action.

Simon Godwin (Man and Superman) directs George Farquhar’s wild comedy of love and cash. The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money.

Othello is the greatest general of his age. A fearsome warrior, loving husband and revered defender of Venice against its enemies.

But he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own, men driven by prejudice and jealousy to destroy him.

Following the huge successes of Oliver! and Singin’ in the Rain, Tri.art students perform one of the greatest musicals of all time. The dark theme and the focus on social problems still resonate today.

Tim Minchin’s musical masterpiece about a girl who dares to change her destiny features five much-loved songs with linking passages and excerpts creating a wonderful mini version of the current west end favourite!

The workshop will take place between Monday 10 and Friday 14 August with a performance on 14 August. Booking with a deposit is essential.

Sorry – we’re not able to take bookings for this workshop on line at the moment. Please call the Box Office 01373 465949 to book a place.

Everyone wants to marry mild-mannered Bianca. No-one wants to marry her older sister Kate. Their father won’t let anyone marry Bianca until a husband can be found for Kate – but no-one knows anyone mad enough to take her on. Until Petruchio comes to town…

A story about choice: about a woman paralysed by decision. Told through physical performance, story-telling and animation, we watch as she dangles from buildings, journeys through micro-landscapes and dances in the rain.

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all, as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made.

With the gold flowing all is well, but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father, and despised outsider, Shylock looks to exact the ultimate price for a deal sealed in blood.

Frome’s finest musical theatre performers attempt to produce a rock musical loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème in just 24 hours. Can they do it?

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out…

Michael Pennington, one of the most respected and learned actors, star of stage, screen and radio, reads from his recently published autobiography Let Me Play the Lion Too: How to be an Actor.

One of the finest singer-songwriters of his generation, presenting songs from his superb solo albums The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook and of course from the famous Squeeze back catalogue including Labelled With Love, Tempted and of course, Up the Junction.

It is the night of Shakespeare’s funeral. The mourners have all gone home, leaving his wife Anne to remember her life with the most talented playwright the world has ever seen. Or was he?

Cornwall’s’ award winning Miracle Theatre takes a long-awaited visit to the Wild West with this brand new spaghetti western for lovers of open-air theatre.

Olivier Award winner Sara Kestelman and BAFTA-nominated Leo Aylen ask women and men some impudent questions about men and women and turn man-woman clichés upside down.

Join Romesh Ranganathan as he hits the road with his eagerly anticipated brand new show ‘Rom Wasn’t Built In A Day’.

Join Tri.Art Dance Academy as we journey through the portrait gallery and bring the artworks to life through a series of dance.

An award-winning hilarious take on Cervantes’ timeless novel.

Two feisty señoritas and a downtrodden Englishman take on Don Quixote’s quest accompanied only by an otherworldly virtuoso guitarist.

A live feature-film premiere: the events that shook Suffolk in 2006 when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women…

A brand new production of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular play of love and intrigue, magic and celebration set on that most dangerous of nights when fairies are abroad and nothing is as it seems…

With their work rooted in the ridiculous, LeNavet Bete presents a physical comedy influenced by the world-famous detective. Dick Tracy promises to have the bad guys in handcuffs and the audience in stitches.

Bored with his chores, the apprentice waves his wand and a broom magically fetches water for him. But he can’t find a spell to stop it. In desperation he saws it in half – and everything spirals out of control…

The Freedom Theatre brings its latest production on its first UK tour: the untold accounts by the exiled fighters who sought sanctuary in the Church of the Nativity, of an event that has taken on almost mythical proportions.

A dazzling programme of ballet, neoclassical, contemporary and narrative dance. The company’s young and dynamic dancers showcase their talent with a diverse performance of newly commissioned works and celebrated revivals.

Come and play down on the farm with Tony and Picasso!

Storytelling, music and lots of chances to make your own art – this hands-on family show introduces one of the 20th century’s most influential artists through the eyes of a young boy.

Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List; Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.

Dance theatre at its most thrilling. Set against the imagined backdrop of New York’s world famous, iconic Empire State Building, five outstanding male performers inhabit the world of the heroic construction workers of 1930.

Frome Drama Club presents Tom Jones, Joan Macalpine’s riotous dramatisation of Henry Fielding’s great picaresque novel. This bawdy 18th century romp sees Tom Jones, Squire Allworthy’s adopted son, falling victim to the charms of one rustic wench after another.

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors).

Tri.Art Dance Academy returns this year with their version of Petipa’s classical ballet, Sleeping Beauty. Join us as we venture into the land of fairy tale, where good reigns over evil and a happily ever after is lived by all.

This affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a house-hold name. Down-and-out skid row florist’s assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. A high energy, darkly comic tale featuring classic songs “ Skid Row”, “Feed Me”, and “Suddenly Seymour”.