Performances this spring and summer

Images Ballet Company returns to the Merlin to present a diverse programme of newly commissioned and restaged dance works. Vibrant dancing complimented with stylish costume and a rich musical palette promises a performance that will entertain and surprise ballet lovers and newcomers to dance alike.

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever. Nicholas Hytner directs this exhilarating new play.

Wendy Darling is certain she saw a boy at her window three floors up – yet no-one believes her. So who can blame her when she flies away to the idyllic Neverland with him? But is Neverland as perfect as it seems?

A fun entertaining evening to get your

music taste buds tingling!
Enjoy Brubeck’s classic ‘Take 5’
A drop of Folk Fiddle
A touch of Blues
A splash of Flamenco
A dash of Rockabilly
Add Kit’s sultry vocals
It’s a recipe for a great night!

SOS are a fantastic 6 piece ABBA revival band who pride themselves on the fact that their show is performed with musicians resulting in an atmospheric live experience. This evening’s open air performance will get you dancing whilst raising much needed funds to replace the Merlin’s house light system.

Fancy dress optional!

Five couples – three human, one fairy, one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals bumble into the forest to rehearse a play.

Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece explores the full spectrum of love.

This special evening of theatre consists of six distinct pieces, each featuring an innovative fusion with the traditional Spanish art-form of Flamenco, ranging from the classical to the uniquely contemporary, and from the beautifully romantic to the surreally hilarious.

Supported by Frome poet Liv Torc

What will we have learned from stillness and silence?
From sharing, not taking? Waiting not pushing?
Whispering not shouting? Dawdling not rushing?

A Frome Festival event

Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the discovery of Richard’s body beneath a car park in Leicester and the 30th anniversary of ECOS amphitheatre next to the Merlin Theatre.

A Frome Festival event

A day to celebrate the short story in various forms, starting with the annual Flash Fiction Competition at 12 noon and the Frome Festival Short Story Competition results and Prizegiving at 2pm. Free entry to all.

A Frome Festival event