Past Performances

Because of the rather unpredictable weather forecast we have decided for everyone’s comfort, and the band’s safety, tonight’s Frome Festival gig will be brought inside. Seating will be unreserved, so sit where you like. We will keep the bar open throughout, and we will make sure you have a space to get up and dance! See you later… Still a few tickets remaining.

A Frome Festival event

A night to celebrate the wonderful life of Crysse Morrison with the inaugural prize for poetry presented by world-renowned stand-up poet and comedian Elvis McGonagall.

A Frome Festival event

In this brand-new show, Miles is joined by his close friend Lynne Miller to discuss his career as an actor, comedian and author.

A Frome Festival event

Sex Cells is a very funny, poignant play about motherhood, friendship, love and loss.

A Frome Festival event

An exciting showcase celebrating diverse youth dance from the South West. Amy Foskett, artistic director of AmyFoskettDance, creates this platform to provide opportunities for young people to perform on a professional stage.

Following its premiere at last year’s Frome Festival,“The Haunting of Richard Third” a new musical by Martin Dimery and David Hynds, has been re-worked for an exciting short beginning at the Merlin en route to Fotheringhay and Market Bosworth. This production will be indoors.

Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Following a box-office record-breaking run in 2019, the one-woman show returns to the Merlin this summer.

Many people believe that there needs to be a seismic shift in the web of life if we want to see a happier and more content world.

Today’s performance will be inside due to the rainy weather. Keep dry and enjoy!

Who’d have imagined that a film about gay / queer people, trade unionists and socialists could ever become a mainstream hit with an all-star cast? Pride told the unlikely story of how radical LGBT activists struck up an alliance with South Wales miners during the 1984/85 miners’ strike.

Behind the party balloons 92-year-old Barbara has a secret which could shake up the relationships of six women for good. Find out where the pieces fall in this engaging, funny and moving new comedy drama about the power, pain and beauty of the freedom to choose.

Due to the unexpected unavailability of key members of their team, it is with great regret that the company have had to cancel their performance of Hutch. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have purchased tickets our Box Office will be in touch.

A film adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

Everyone loves Dan. He’s cool, compassionate and at 16 he has plans – just losing his life isn’t one of them. Dan took ecstasy at a rave… and this powerful true story, tells of what happened to him, his family and friends. A story of tragedy to redemption.

With King Richard away, the rich will break every rule to seize power. They’re ready to play dirty, but so is Robin Hood. He plots to bring down the greedy Sheriff of Nottingham and every other villain along the way!

Build your brilliance in improvisation classes using theatre games – come and play.

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David Harewood and Zachary Quinto play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s multiple award-winning new drama.

Jeremy Herrin directs this blistering political thriller, filmed live in London’s West End.

One of the most sought-after acts on the Americana music circuit, Buffalo Gals, led by champion USA fiddler and funny-woman Kate Lissauer, present a joyful, relaxed Sunday social of Bluegrass, Old-time and early Country songs punctuated with thrilling step-dance.

Based on a dramatic real-life incident with thrilling ups and downs of the night a mysterious clown came to town and more than one life ended up in the balance. It was no laughing matter – but this show certainly is!

Five companies that have already won Festivals perform their plays before adjudicator Alan Hayes, GoDA, providing a varied day of theatre. We never know what to expect but look forward to an exciting and entertaining day.

Shoddy Theatre are back with their sell out, multi rolling, slapstick whodunnit? inspired by the classics of British and American comedies.

Rowan McCabe knocks on strangers’ doors and writes poems for them. In 2019 he did this all around England. But as March 2020 approached, world events pushed the project in a very different direction…

‘Ingenious’ BBC Radio Scotland

David Tennant makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

Join Tri.Art Dance Academy for their fantastic annual Easter showcase as they celebrate their 10 year anniversary! This performance comprises a re-telling of the traditional Ballet Coppélia and a showcase of dazzling numbers from our performing arts students.

Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.

Frome Drama present Laura Wade’s 2019 Olivier Award winning comedy about nostalgia and celebrating the present. Judy Martin is determined to create the perfect 1950s home. But can the perfect housewife’s marriage survive in the 2010s?

Selwood Academy presents Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins Jr. Full of all the well known songs from the movie, you will be transported away through a world of colour, music and dancing.

Recently it has felt like grief is all around us. Seeds of Memories is a wistful and uplifting show packed to the brim with puppetry and poetry.

Filmed live at the Barbican in London, this major 5-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster alongside three-time Olivier Award winner Robert Lindsay, Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Felicity Kendal and beloved West End Legend Gary Wilmot.

In a lively and memorable last night of The Kindness Festival the Merlin Theatre turns into Paris for a ’Secret Cinema’ style gala screening of Amelie complete with fancy dress, live music and unexpected pop up theatrics. Bring a group of friends and help contribute to our fundraising efforts.

SHE interweaves the stories of 14 different women in their twenties, embracing life from infancy to old age. Visceral, poignant, and laced with humour, SHE is curated as seven contrasting plays, performed by two actors.

Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.  

Othello is filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre.

The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto.

One man’s dream to reach the stars leaves the world in ruins! Can the sleeping dinosaurs wake and save planet Earth? A riotously fun environmental tale fuelled by rock’n’roll.

Featuring our talented students from years 9-13 at Frome College, we invite you to spend the evening rocking out with us!

They say that behind every great man, there is a great woman. Was this true in Churchill’s case? What of Clementine, his wife for 56 years? Did he bully her like he did so many other people? Was he as grumpy and irascible at home as he often was in the House of Commons? Did Clem have any influence on him at all? Or was she ‘the little lady at home’?

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell. Lyndsey Turner directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.

Ever wondered how Mike’s Great-Aunt Zusa made it from Poland to Luton with a war nipping at her heels? Here’s your chance to find out.

In a family-friendly concert, Frome Town Band invites you to join their musical Christmas celebration. Sing carols, see Father Christmas, and listen as Frome’s very own community brass band play live with the film of Raymond Brigg’s Snowman as he soars above the snowy landscape.

The story of this magnificent peach is faithfully told by James himself and the insect characters – Miss Spider, Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybird and Earthworm.

The sweetest of all Matthew Bourne’s treats comes to cinemas for the first time. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, this witty, wonderful, rip-roaring spectacular is a Nutcracker! for all seasons and the sweet treat we all deserve.

Chaucer’s vivid characters, the story of their pilgrimage, and the gripping and often raunchy tales they tell on their way, are updated to the early 1950s in this new and original adaptation, full of life, energy, and humour.

Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness. Following his critically acclaimed five-star production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd brings Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play to stage.

Encore screening, filmed live in London’s West End on Thursday 3 November.

Shakespeare’s sparkling farce is a roller coaster of wit, romance, physical comedy and mistaken identities, as two sets of twins cause mayhem in ancient Ephesus when their lives and loves become almost inextricably tangled.

TEDxFrome celebrates local ‘ideas worth spreading’. Ten speakers will be sharing their ideas in the theme of ‘I am because we are’ – climate, words, women’s health, life and death, personal development, culture, food, the natural world, our homes and more.

From the creator of The Spirit of Woodstock…

From Space Invaders to Star Wars, glam-rock to punk, flares to safety pins, Wilson to Thatcher.
A dynamic theatre collage of the stories, the people, the music.
A romp through the 70s.

A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris, based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals.

The simply remarkable author, artist, musician, and professor of medieval history Amy Jeffs talks to fellow author Max Porter (Lanny; Grief is the Thing with Feathers) about her Sunday Times bestselling book Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain.

Hear author and former politician Alan Johnson talk about his new fast-paced and warm-hearted page-turner, One of Our Ministers is Missing, in which (you guessed it) a government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air…

Sunday Times bestseller and rising star, Joanna Quinn talks about her stunning debut novel The Whalebone Theatre.