Tag: Rose Theatre
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REVIEW: Educating Rita, Rose Theatre
This wonderfully warm production reveals a play that still feels as though it has plenty of relevance today. Forty years on since it was first performed, Willy Russell’s play still feels as warm and memorable thanks Max Roberts’s sensitive and thoughtful production, that really captures the two central character’s relationship well. Following the relationship between […]
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NEWS: Rose Theatre to Reopen with ‘Return to the Rose’ Season
The theatre in Kingston has unveiled details of its reopening season, as it prepares to open its doors for the first time since lockdown. Opening its doors to the public on the 28th October, the Rose Theatre has announced a special ‘Return to the Rose Season’, that will adhere to robust risk mitigation processes and […]
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Love London Love Culture’s Picks of the Week: Sunday 7th June 2020
Here’s a guide to some of the cultural things we have been writing about this week… Interview with Robert O’Dowd: this week we spoke to the Rose Theatre’s Chief Executive about the challenges that the theatre industry is currently facing and what we can do to support it right now. Review of Going the Distance […]
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Interview With….Robert O’Dowd
The Chief Executive of the Rose Theatre in Kingston spoke to us about the fight to safeguard the theatre industry. Hi Robert, thanks so much for talking to me. Could you explain in a little more detail about SOLT and UK Theatre’s campaign to protect theatres during this time? Theatre and a few other performing arts organisations are […]
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An Open Letter to Theatre and Performance makers
An open letter has been sent by the signatories to their networks of freelancers. This is a letter to self-employed and freelance theatre and performance makers in the UK. To the actors, playwrights, directors, choreographers, stage managers, designers, stage crews and set-builders to name just a few. We really miss being with you during this […]
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NEWS: Rose Theatre Announces Readings From the Rose
The theatre in Kingston-Upon-Thames has announced their latest initiative to bring creativity into people’s homes. It has been announced that Adjoa Andoh, Angellica Bell, Arthur Darvill, Christopher Eccleston, Jane Asher and Paterson Joseph are among several actors and creatives who have filmed themselves reading their favourite poems for the Rose to release online over the next couple of […]
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NEWS: Rose Theatre Launches Rose Endures Campaign
The Rose Theatre in Kingston has announced its Rose Endures fundraising campaign. The Rose Theatre has today launched its fundraising campaign Rose Endures amid the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus epidemic and aims to help protect the future of the theatre and the livelihoods of its staff and associate creatives. As one of the largest producing […]
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NEWS: Rose Theatre Announces Beauty and the Beast As Christmas Production
The production will begin performances from the 4th December. This Christmas, the Rose Theatre in Kingston will reimagine the classic fairytale as its 2020 festive production. Adapted by Ciaran McConville (Hansel & Gretel, The Snow Queen and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) and directed by Lucy Morrell(Associate Director on Hansel & Gretel), the production will include […]
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NEWS: Rose Theatre Announces Production of Steel Magnolias
The production will run at the Rose Theatre in Kingston from the 1st to the 23rd May. The Rose Theatre has announced it will be presenting a production of Robert Harling’s romantic comedy Steel Magnolias this May, directed by Anthony Banks. In small-town Louisiana, Truvy’s beauty salon is a regular rendezvous for six extraordinary women who […]
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Interview With…Lucy Morrell
The director chatted to Emma Clarendon about working with the Rose Youth Theatre Alumni on a new version of Frankenstein in The Creature: Frankenstein Retold. Hi Lucy, what can audiences expect from this retelling of Mary Shelley’s story? The Creature is a contemporary retelling of Shelley’s novel set in a world of quantum sciences and […]