Established in Bristol, 1934
One musical a year, on the biggest stage in the South West
BLOC Productions is an amateur musical theatre company staging one show a year at the Bristol Hippodrome, every year since 1956. We are the only non-professional company that performs there.
The aim is professional-quality musical theatre at a price local audiences can afford, performed and produced entirely by non-professionals — on stage, in the pit, in wardrobe and in the technical teams behind them. Every show is staged full scale, with a large live orchestra.
In 2025 Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International made us one of only eleven companies in the country licensed to stage an amateur premiere of the full version of Les Misérables, for the show’s fortieth anniversary. Years before that we were the first company offered the rights to Evita.
Performers audition each spring, and the company needs backstage crew, wardrobe and production team all year round — more about getting involved.
