Friends Newsletters 2024

January 2024

Greenmatthews: Shakespeare's Music - Tuesday 9 January 2024 by Lauretta Hobson
London Bridge Is Falling Down...and Other Grisly Tales by Franki Gray
The Rose Playhouse, Bankside by Christina Skaife
Renewing Your Membership by Penny Evans

February 2024

What Is Happening at the Rose by Peter Jolly
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture - Sir Gregory Doran: "Titus Andronicus Revisited" by Norma Wilshaw
Valentine's and Other Romantic Non-Sense by Franki Gray
Fanfare for the Common Man by Christina Skaife

March 2024

Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture - Sir Gregory Doran: "Titus Andronicus Revisited"
Visit the Rose by Wendy Hemmings
Beware the Ides of March by Franki Gray
Welcome, Welcome Glorious Morn by Christina Skaife
Get-Together, the Anchor, Bankside by Christina Skaife

June 2024

Social gathering for Friends
Site-Opening Trials (Costumes, Play Reading)
Play-Reading Review
"Jolly June"
"First Sonic Walk Trials of 2024"
"Our Restless Earth"

August 2024

Upcoming Webinar:
"Much Ado about Numbers, Rob Eastaway"
The Rose's Seventh Readathon
Readathon Hats
"A Visit to The Rose Playhouse by The Strawberry Hill Volunteers"
"House of Easement"
"A Submission" (Christina Skaife)
Other News (Alleyn Wedding Anniversary, Roy Stevenson Artefacts, Mudlarking and Heritage Crafts Festival)

November 2024

Timothy West by Christina Skaife
A Memory and Thank You to Timothy West (20 October 1934 -12 November 2024) by Pepe Pryke
A Drum, A Drum, Macbeth Doth Come by Dermot McInerney
Discovery Days at the Rose Playhouse 2025
Researching the Rose: How To Do Things with Shoes: Digging (For) Dekker's Footwear and Footwork at the Rose, Professor Natasha Korda
Review of "Much Ado About Numbers": A Talk on Shakespeare's Use of Numerals In His Writing, Given by Bob Eastaway on Monday, 16th September 2024 by Lauretta Hobson
The First Folio-Hemmings and Condell by Franki Gray
This Insubstantial Pageant by Christina Skaife
The Readathon 2024, 21st September
Friends Committee 2024/25