Welcome to Cheddar Arts @ Kings Theatre

About Us

Cheddar Arts @ Kings Theatre is a community arts organisation based in the Cheddar Valley. It is centred on The Kings of Wessex Academy's state-of-the-art studio theatre and is an important collaboration between the school and the village community. Cheddar has always had a tradition of amateur-based plays, pantomimes and school productions, and has often played host to touring companies and orchestras. Cheddar Arts aims to build on this, and it's hoped that the theatre will become the hub of village theatrical life.

Cheddar Arts provides top quality professional entertainment and films for the local community. The theatre has seating for an audience of 240 and is fully equipped to professional standards with a new screen for the showing of films, and seats raised for perfect viewing. Box office facilities are provided by Kings Fitness & Leisure, and each performance is hosted by volunteer 'Friends of Cheddar Arts' along with staff at the Kings of Wessex Academy and Kings Fitness & Leisure.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Our Next Event

Onyx Brass - Cheddar Valley Music Club

Monday, 6th February 2012 @ 7.30pm

Tickets: £8.50 adults/£6.50 children

Onyx Brass is one of the rare breed of chamber ensembles whose musical and technical virtuosity is matched by the accessibility and vitality of their presentation. Their mission is to have their extraordinary abilities at the disposal of the music at all times, and to play music of the requisite quality to reflect the status of the brass quintet as a serious medium for chamber music. The richness and warmth of their sound is remarked upon by all who hear them.

Anne Higgs and her Cheddar Valley Music Club will be performing alongside and supporting them, giving the club a unique chance to be on stage with a top professional Quintet. An uplifting evening not to be missed, seeing our local talented youngsters perform with The Best!

Coming Soon

Richard Herring - What Is Love, Anyway?

Saturday, April 14th 2012

Tickets: £13

Richard Herring is once again including Cheddar (his "home" as he calls it) in the National Tour of his latest show - "What Is Love, Anyway?".

"What is l-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uhve anyway? Does anybody love anybody anyway?"

So asked the insane, Welsh, poet-philosopher, Howard Jones in 1983. But in the intervening 28 years no one has dared to answer his questions? Until now...

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An Evening with Gervase Phinn

Monday, June 11th 2012

Tickets: £15

Gervase Phinn has been touring theatres across the country for over 9 years now as a hilarious raconteur. The best selling and award winning author, Radio and TV personality, really is at his best and most exciting in front of a live audience

Dubbed “the James Herriot of schools”, "An Evening with Gervase" Phinn will have you on the edges of your seats, as he shares his hilarious and sometimes poignant tales of life as a schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales.