FROME Drama Club has chosen Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light (two words in the original) for its Spring production, on at the Merlin Theatre from Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th April.

The thriller is set in 1880s London, and has given the word “gaslight” to the world to describe what is now known as coercive control and was officially criminalised by Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015.

Richard J Thomas directs the Frome production, in which Jack Manningham (Daniel Sung) does everything he can to convince his wife Bella (Anna Van Leyden) that she is insane. Emma Parrish and Lydia Massey play the servants, with Stephen Kebbell as Inspector Rough, the man who eventually unravels the back story.

This classic of domestic peril thrillers starts each night at 7.30.