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External video: "Behind the Rose Playhouse, London", Maverick Theatre interview with Celia Gilbert and Linda of the Rose Friends, 27 April 2021
Online interview with Nick Hennegen, Maverick Theatre Company, with the Rose Playhouse manager, Celia Gilbert and Linda, Friends of the Rose describe…
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- Collection: Event History (lectures, concerts, guided walks, festivals, etc.), 1993-2026
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Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Celebrating Shakespeare through song and storytelling at St. Paul's Covent Garden, 8 October 2016
Variety performance of songs and storytelling at the Actors' Church St Paul's Covent Garden in association with the Rose as fundraising event
Talk: "Leading Ladies: Women's Power in Greek Tragedy" with Dr Liz Sawyer, 29 June 2015
Dr Liz Sawyer, Institute for Digital Archaeology, leads discussion "Leading ladies: women's power in Greek tragedy" in association with the production of "Ipheginia at Aulis". 7:30 PM, 12 tickets
Talk: "Shakespearean Performance in Modern London: Discussions and Performances on the Shakespeare in Modern Theatre", 25 April 2016
Group panel including Duncan Moore (KDC Theatre), Bryon Fear (South London Theatre), Tom Salyers (Tower Theatre), Jenny Eastop (Mercurius) and Pepe Pryke, Rose operations manager and hon artistic associate give talk about recent productions at the…
Talk: "The Early Modern Theatrical Scene in London," in Conversation with Prof Duncan Salkeld and Dr Andy Kesson, 11 April 2016
Prof Duncan Salkeld and Dr Andy Kesson lead discussion, question and answers about Elizabethan theatre and culture in London in association with Museum of London Archeagology (MoLA). 26 tickets
Talk: Liam Brennan in Conversation, 21 January 2013
Programme of "Actor Revealed" talks. Liam Brennan has performed Marlowe and Shakespeare at Shakespeare's Globe, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, etc.
Event date: 21 January 2013
Event date: 21 January 2013
Talk: Shakespeare in London and The Rose in Lenox, MA, 23 September 2003
Prof Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson, Rose Trustees, share their work on Shakespeare's sonnets; Jon Greenfield, architect, shares plans to build a Rose reconstruction in Lenox, Massachusetts (USA). The Rose documentary film also shown.
The Alleyns' 433rd Wedding Anniversary Celebration, 25 October 2025
Friends of The Rose host a social gathering to celebrate Alleyn's wedding anniversary to Joan Woodward, Henslowe's step-daughter. Display and demonstration of recreated clothing from their portraits. Food tasting, etc.
The Dead City Halloween Tour, 31 October 2011
Magician and Jon Randall leads walking tour of Bankside including The Rose on Halloween, 31 October 2011 at 7:00 PM, with Boo Tours in association with operations manager, Pepe Pryke. "Walk the streets of the haunted city and then hear the real…
The Eighth Rose Readathon, 20 September 2025
The Friends of The Rose organise an open day at the Rose with organised readings of selected plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare with special guests, Friends and members of the community. Minimal staging, etc. £5 for admission as audience; £10 to…
The Rose forthcoming events flier, 17 October 2009
A flier announcing several events and performances. Includes: Chartist Rising, Night of New Playwrights, Macbeth, Shakespeare's Women, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Carol Concert with Octave
The Rose Summer Exhibition, 6-20 May 2005
Group art exhibition of video art, paintings, drawings, mosaics and sculptures by artists John Jensen, Tawny Gray, William Roper Curzon, Thion, Celia Gregory, Adam Caroll, Alice Constable Maxwell and Simon Tarrant. Open every day 12:00 to 6:00 from…
Tudors and Elizabethans Revealed, family events, July-November 2013
Programme of Family Friendly Morning events including dance, food and table settings, theatre props, clothing demonstrations, Joan Woodward impersonator (Alleyn's wife and Henslowe's step-daughter). Two sessions each day. SE1 Newsletter announcement,…
Walking tour: "Bustling Bankside: Tales in Theatreland," 23 January 2013
Pepe Pryke, Rose Operations Manager, leads this walking tour of Bankside and Southbank including the Rose Playhouse. 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Announcement on Better Bankside website.
Webinar: " In Little Place a Million- an actor's perspective" with Michael Pennington, 10 November 2020
" "In Little Place a Million- an actor's perspective" : leading actor and Shakespeare scholar, Michael Pennington Royal Shakespeare Company, discusses how the dramatist's writing was affected by the very nature of the theatres for which he wrote, so…
Webinar: "‘Save thou my rose; in it thou art my all’ (Sonnet 109): ALL the Sonnets of Shakespeare" with Paul Edmondson and Sir Stanley Wells, 20 April 2021
" All the Sonnets of Shakespeare : Presented by Paul Edmondson and Sir Stanley Wells. For the first time, all of Shakespeare’s sonnets — those published in 1609 and those within the plays — have been presented in chronological order. All the Sonnets…
Webinar: "A Voice for Richard" with Yvonne Morley-Chisolm, 19 January 2021
"Yvonne Morley-Chisholm : A voice for Richard- the Journey continues.
Following on from her presentation to The Rose last March, into reconstructing King Richard III’s voice,this live online talk will take us through the latest developments and…
Following on from her presentation to The Rose last March, into reconstructing King Richard III’s voice,this live online talk will take us through the latest developments and…
Webinar: "A Voice for Richard", Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, 7 April 2022
After the discovery of King Richard III's body in 2012, Dr Yvonne Morely-Chisholm recreated his voice using various forensic investigations.
Webinar: "Edward Alleyn, Life After The Rose" with Calista Lucy and Peter Jolly from Dulwich College, 11 May 2021
"Using Edward Alleyn’s Diary (MS IX 1617–1622), letters and other documents from the Archive at Dulwich College, Calista Lucy, Keeper of the Archive, will consider some ideas around why and how Edward Alleyn turned himself from actor to gentleman…
Webinar: "Faustus in a Virtual Rose: A Lunchtime Talk" with Professor Joanne Tompkins, 18 August 2020
Academic research presentation by Professor Tompkins who recreated a digital version of the Rose Playhouse, the Ortelia Rose model, interactive
Webinar: "In Conversation with: Oscar-winner David Parfitt," 26 May 2020
David Parfitt shares highlights of his career including producing Shakespeare in Love (1998), which depicts the Rose in Henslowe's time
Webinar: "Making The Text Ours", Jonathan Livingstone, 30 March 2021
Jonathan Livingston, actor, shares performance strategies for actors to effectively inhabit early modern texts.
Webinar: "Marlowe's Mighty Roles", Ken Pickering, 15 September 2020
"Pretty Kitty...Christopher Marlowe’s Muse , outside the theatre dedicated to him in his home town of Canterbury...join us for the next in our fortnightly webinar series, when Prof. Ken Pickering will introduce her and four of Marlowe’s Mighty Roles…
Webinar: "Shakespeare as a Protest Playwright", Janet Suzman, 1 September 2020
"Janet will take us through two specific passages in her formidable career, in two separate webinars. In this first one, she describes her experience of directing Othello- a banned play- in apartheid South Africa, which has many resonances for the…
Webinar: "Suggesting a New Phillip Henslowe", Professor Susan Cerasano, 29 September 2020
"Philip Henslowe has, for years, been thought of as a one-dimensional character, whose image has changed, over time, from that of a shady moneylender to a financier to an entrepreneur. In this webinar, Prof Cerasano will discuss a few of the ways in…
Webinar: "The Blue Carbuncle...Another Evening with Gary Andrews," 14 December 2021
Reading, online zoom event
Webinar: Exploring Archaeology in Roman Southwark, 18 October 2021
Three speakers: Chris Constable, Ireneo Grosso, and Antonietta Lerz. Introduced by Harvey Sheldon
Webinar: Researching the Rose: 'Joan Alleyn: No Mouse' with Calista Lucy, Dulwich College archive, 24 November 2025
Academic research presentation: "Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, (where Henslowe's papers are held) pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, and the wife of its…
Webinar: Researching The Rose: "Citizen Players, Playgoing Citizens", Professor Tracey Hill, 5 June 2023
Academic research presentation: Professor Hill discusses the various associations between the Livery companies and the playing companies
Webinar: Researching the Rose: An Introduction to Philip Henslowe's Rose with Professor Grace Ioppolo, 27 October 2025
Academic research presentation: Dr Grace Ioppolo discusses how the Rose was developed by Henslowe as evidenced in extant business records, talk describes her digitisation project of the Henslowe and Alleyn archive in collaboration with Dulwich…
Webinar: Researching the Rose: Page of Plymouth with Helen Chaloner and David Prescott, 13 October 2025
Academic research presentation: Jonson and Dekker's lost play 'A Page of Plymouth' written for the Rose in 1599
Webinar: Researching the Rose: Pub Crawling with Playhouses with Professor Laurie Johnson, 10 November 2025
Academic research presentation: exploring the association of playhouses and surrounding business activity, especially re food and drink
Webinar: Shakespeare North with Kathy Dacre, 30 November 2020
"In Spring 2022, the Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in Knowsley, ( Liverpool) near the site of the first known Elizabethan indoor theatre built outside London. The project, delivered by the Shakespeare North Charitable Trust, will complete a…
