The Last Matron

A play about Keyford Asylum based on real events and discovered diaries in Frome written by Kevin Ross.

A head strong girl desperate to escape the vice-like grip of institutional life. Tensions run high between old aged companions, but without each other what have they got? Young lovers torn apart by war. Evacuee children ready to take on whatever Hitler can throw at them!

And astride it all is the Matron, a protective figure holding lives together.

With a grand old building facing demolition the Last Matron of Keyford watches as a parade of spectres appear before her. The building cannot be saved but it isn’t too late to resurrect the memory of those who passed through its doors.