Past Performances

Join us as we step into a world of magic and mythology. We challenge our students to awaken their imaginations, exploring stories such as La Boutique Fantasque and A Midsummer Nights Dream.

Based on Mel Brooks’ beloved Academy Award winning movie, The Producers is a hilarious musical comedy that has taken Broadway and the West End by storm, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and 3 Olivier Awards.

A powerfully moving story of a mother caught up in the drama of her daughter’s addiction. Award-winning production fusing real life testimonies with vivid language and evocative film. Written and performed by Maggie Sawkins.

From Forest Forge Company, a buoyant and poetic new play.

Follow the story of a brother and sister as they chart the ebb and flow of their lives, a journey that continually pulls them back to the riverbank.

The story of an actor’s unnerving visit to the West Bank, combined with often amusing tales of life as a solo performer. Find out why Ava Hunt went to Palestine, and what happened in the desert when she got there.

In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry (David Morrissey The Walking Dead, State of Play) is something of a local celebrity. But what’s the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they’ve abolished hanging?

Welding the art of steampunk stage hypnotism with comedy theatre, mesmeric magic and mentalism and a even a spirit cabinet seance to bring you fast, funny, fantastical empowering entertainment.

Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change comes to the National Theatre for the first time in over 30 years, with Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth at Manchester International Festival) as Rosalind.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.

This multi award-winning company brings you an Odyssey of now – contemporary horror and fantasy splintering from ancient myth, the themes universal: how we face our mortality and the gods inside us.

Former lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont now compete in games of seduction and revenge. But while these merciless aristocrats toy with others’ hearts and reputations, their own may prove more fragile than they supposed…

Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms.

The award-winning Merlin Theatre Company presents a magical, visual musical – perfect for families to kick-start the seasonal festivities. Based on the original fairy tale, The Little Mermaid has been written specially for the company to perform during this year of celebration.

Shakespeare’s timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, following their triumphant staging of Macbeth in Manchester and Manhattan.

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.