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External video: Hamnet (film) Actor Jessie Buckley CBS Sunday Morning interview at the Rose Playhouse, 9 November 2025
Actor Jessie Buckley talks to Seth Doane about her recent role in Hamnet, an Oscar nominated film in 2025. Buckley performed at the Rose during her…
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- Collection: Event History (lectures, concerts, guided walks, festivals, etc.), 1993-2026
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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
Discovery Days: Joan Alleyn Costume, 6 July 2024
See more images in Social Media collection, 2015 Website capture. Costume was created in 2013 for the RTT by Caroline Akselson
Discovery Days: "A Tudor Easter", 5 April 2025
Friends of the Rose dress in Tudor clothing and offer an interpretation of Easter celebrations from the Elizabethan era with songs, dancing, clothing and food demonstrations
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: "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…
Discovery Days: Archaeology, 3 May 2025
Friends of the Rose host an open day and fundraiser with archaeological artefacts for display and handling. These include clay pipes, coins, bones and other objects either discovered during the 1989 excavation or environs.
A Voice for Richard, Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, 9 March 2020
On-site lecture presentation of research to recreate the King Richard III's voice, including original pronunciation
Discovery Days: Play-reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 21 June 2025
Friends of The Rose lead a participatory play reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream with parts decided by pulling characters from a hat. Fundraiser.
Discovery Days: Archaeology, 5 July 2025
The Friends of The Rose organise and staff an open day with archaeological artefacts from the Rose dig and contemporary sites on display. Public invited to touch small artefacts like buttons, shoes, bones, clay pipes, etc.
Discovery Days: Tudor Costume - Joan Alleyn, 2 August 2025
Friends of The Rose organise an open day at the Rose with costume/clothing demonstrations including the reconstructed dress depicted in the portrait of Joan Woodward, commissioned by the Rose Theatre Trust. Members of the public are invited to try on…
Open Days, August Summer Openings, 8-30 August 2025
The Friends of the Rose open the doors on the 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 30th August for 'Open Days' to welcome visitors to the Rose and offer displays and demonstrations including costume, dance, archaeology, etc
£6 admission for adults and teens; £20…
£6 admission for adults and teens; £20…
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…
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
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture: Sir Gregory Doran - 'Titus Revisited', at LSBU, 27 March 2024
Sir Gregory Doran gave the first Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture, 'Titus Revisited' at London Southbank University where Sir Simon Hughes, long-standing member of the Rose Theatre Trust, is Chancellor. The talk centered on his 1995 production of Titus…
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…
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.
Richard III play reading, 1 November 2025
Friends of the Rose host a participatory play-reading of Richard III
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: 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
Huscared bust of Shakespeare viewing, 31 January 2013
Fundraising event - public viewing of Garrick Huscared bust of Shakespeare donated to the Rose Theatre Trust. (Huscared died December 2013.)
Researching the Rose: Domestic Tragedy, Lost and Found with Dr Emma Whipday, 26 January 2026 (postponed)
"Before true crime drama, there was domestic tragedy: a genre that flourished in the 1590s and early 1600s, inspired by a sensational series of recent murders . . . " This talk will explore this fleeting and ephemeral, yet significant, genre.
Researching the Rose: Tina Packer. 12 January 2026 - CANCELLED
Join legendary theatre director TINA PACKER, founder of Shakespeare & Company in Western Massachusetts, as she traces the emergence of theatres in Elizabethan London.
Discovery Days: Twelfth Night Celebration, 3 January 2026
Friends Discovery Day: "Join us at The Rose to discover how Twelfth Night was celebrated in Shakespeare’s day. Ruling over the festivities will be King Bean and Queen Pea, selected in the time-honoured way by two lucky guests finding a bean or a pea…
Researching the Rose: Beasts of Bankside with Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright, & Professor Hannah O'Regan, 8 December 2025
Academic research presentation: "Join the Box-Office Bears team as they share their latest research into the lives of the animals forced to performed in the bear-baiting arenas that stood close by to The Rose."
Discovery Days: Archaeology, 2 November 2024
"Join the Friends of The Rose Playhouse on site to view our new artefacts. You will find out about the excavation of the site in 1988-89 and have a chance to handle over 400 year old objects from the period, found by Thames mudlarks. They are…
Sonic Trail (full trial) and Rose Visit, 22 May 2024
"You are outside the Rose Playhouse and John Singer, a player in the company of Admiral's Men, invites you to take a stroll around Southwark and Bankside before the play begins. Join us for a 60 minute trial of our new circular sonic trail starting…
Sonic Trail (full trial) and Rose Visit, 4 June 2024
"You are outside the Rose Playhouse and John Singer, a player in the company of Admiral's Men, invites you to take a stroll around Southwark and Bankside before the play begins. Join us for a 60 minute trial of our new circular sonic trail starting…
Researching the Rose: Lost Plays & The Rose with Professor David McInnis, 23 March 2026
"The vast majority of plays once performed at The Rose Playhouse are now lost, but what can they still reveal about the business of Elizabethan play-making and the audiences who watched them?
The excavations of playhouse foundations by…
The excavations of playhouse foundations by…
Researching the Rose: Before The Rose: Marlowe at The Curtain with Dr Callan Davies, 11 May 2026
"Join Dr Callan Davies as he takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside while Christopher Marlowe is living north of the river up in Shoreditch, a stone’s throw from The Curtain Playhouse.
His ‘mighty lines’…
His ‘mighty lines’…
Researching the Rose: Ballads as Theatre 'Merch' in Shakespeare's London with Professor Tiffany Stern, 27 April 2026
"Join Professor Tiffany Stern to discover why theatrical broadsheet ballads were sold outside The Rose and other playhouses, who wrote them them, printed them & sung them, and why & how they were connected with the plays performed inside."
Researching the Rose: In Conversation – Jesse Berger, Founder & Artistic Director of Red Bull Theater, New York, 12 April 2024
"Join acclaimed American theatre-maker Jesse Berger in conversation with The Rose's Ben Prusiner, as he talks about his career in the arts, and shares his perspectives on producing classical theatre for modern audiences.
Learn first-hand about Red…
Learn first-hand about Red…