PATRICK Ness’s play A Monster Calls, developed from an original idea by the late Siobhan Dowd, comes to the Merlin Theatre in Frome from 20th to 22nd November, performed by members of Frome Drama and directed by Calum Grant. Set in the present day, the story centres on 13-year-old Conor, whose mother is dying from…
MERE Amateur Dramatic Society will be taking audiences out of the seasonal baking and present-packing frenzy to the far-from-festive setting of Occupied France for the winter production – ‘Allo ‘Allo 2, “The Camembert Caper” at the Lecture Hall from 19th to 22nd November. Based on the hit TV series, this sequel to the popular stage production…
AFTER months of building work, the Swan Theatre in Yeovil is re-opening on 17th November with a production of Ted Tally’s Terra Nova – the story of Scott’s famous expedition to the Antarctic between 1910 and 1913. Officially it was the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and with various scientific and…
THE critically acclaimed Nick Dear stage adaptation of Frankenstein is the choice of Street Theatre for its production at Strode Theatre, Street, from 12th to 15th November. This version of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre in February 2011. The production was directed…
THE next play on stage at the Ashley Road Studio Theatre in Salisbury is an English version of Nikolai Gogol’s classic The Government Inspector, from 13th to 18th October. The adaptation, by Philip Goulding, is sub-titled A Little Local Difficulty, and will be directed by the writer’s brother George, a Studio stalwart. The action of…
GREAT Expectations is a book that you could say lives up to its title – an epic story of damaged lives and shattered illusions. Despite its scale it lends itself to the intimacy of theatre as the audience will discover when Shaftesbury Arts Centre’s music and drama group stages the story, from 22nd to 25th…
THERE is precious little good that came out of 9/11 – but one heart-warming, true story from those tragic, desperate days was turned into a great musical, Come From Away, which has been chosen by Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society for its autumn 2025 show, from 14th to 18th October at the Westlands entertainment centre. One…
SOMERSET Opera has joined with Valley of the Rocks-based Pleasure Dome Theatre to create a Handelian delight for audiences this Autumn. Between 30th August and 25th October, they will tour a reworking of Handel’s classic 1724 Giulio Cesare, this time set in the villages and towns of Somerset where the protagonists are Cesare, chairman of…
IF you fancy taking part in a pantomime based on one of the best-known and loved of all fantasy stories, make a note of Monday 15th September, the day when Shaftesbury Arts Centre’s music and drama group is holding an interest evening for the 2026 pantomime, Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll’s unique and timeless classic…
YEOVIL’S Swan Theatre welcomes a newcomer next week, when Amy McIntosh joins the talented company to play the role of Aurora (Rory to her friends) in Tatty Hennessy’s play A Hundred Words for Snow. Mark Payne directs the play, which had its premiere in London in 2018, and Amy is known to Yeovil audiences for…