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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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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…
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…
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…
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: 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: 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…
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."
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
Richard III play reading, 1 November 2025
Friends of the Rose host a participatory play-reading of Richard III
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.
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
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…
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…
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…
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: 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, 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.
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
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
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: "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: "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.
Alleyn Walks, 2022 (Guided Walks starting at Moorgate)
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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: "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: "‘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: "Making The Text Ours", Jonathan Livingstone, 30 March 2021
Jonathan Livingston, actor, shares performance strategies for actors to effectively inhabit early modern texts.
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: 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…
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: "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…
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
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
Lecture: Julian Bowsher, "The Rose: Archaeology, History, Drama", 20 May 2019
Julian Bowsher, senior archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology, provides assessment of archaeological discovery at the Rose and other playhouses with interpretation of historical documents like the Peacham sketch depicting Titus Andronicus…
A Walk on the wild Bankside, 22 January 2019
Rose volunteer, Pepe Pryke (?), leads guided walk through Bankside and Borough Market.
Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow, Pepe Pryke leaving party, 25 May 2018
Pepe Pryke leaving party after 19? years of service at the Rose, volunteer and contract service, including operations management (foh). (Pepe would return after 2022 intermittently.)
A Very Shakespeare Christmas, carol singing, 16 December 2016
Christmas carol sing-along. Mince pies and mulled wine.
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: "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…
Shakespeare 400th Anniversary, 23 April 2016
Open day scheduled from 10:00 - 5:00PM with a variety of demonstrations, performances, dance, readings, the Rose documentary film (approx 25 minutes), etc. to commemorate 400 year anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 1616.
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
Christmas Carol Concert, 17 December 2015
Holiday caroling sing-along event with 50/50 split with charity Place2Be, sold-out with approximately 84 tickets. Mince pies and mulled wine.
Lecture: "Shakespeare's Kings" by John Julius Norwich at Museum of London Weston Theatre, 11 November 2015
Lecture and fundraising event to support the development of the Rose Theatre by John Julius Norwich at the Museum of London Weston Theatre.
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
Riverside London: One Big Summer (festival), June 2015
Rose included on map of attractions during the Riverside festival and performance of "The Ghost Sonata", performance dates 4-28 August, page 9
Cheapside Talk: production discussion about The Chaste Maid of Cheapside, 16 March 2015
Artists associated with The Chaste Maid of Cheapside hold discussion panel for audience with separate ticket, 14 tickets
"The Rose Theatre: Archaeological remains tour" site visit led by Harvey Sheldon, 12 March 2015
Talk by Harvey Sheldon, archaeologist and Chair of the Rose Theatre Trust, regarding the discovery, excavation and display of the Rose Theatre with special access to the site, 10:30 to 12:00. In association with the Museum of London.
My Bloody Valentine: Antiquaries of Love, 16 February 2015
Storytelling and concert event to celebrate Valentine's Day. Performances include songs by Suzanne Marie, readings from horror writers M.R. James and Arthur Machen by Jon Kaneko-Jones and Anthony Lewis, and magician Siegfried Loew creates performed…
A Concert for Christmas, 15 December 2014
Caroling sing-along concert with special invitation for Friends of the Rose and upcoming for February through April 2014 including a Friends visit to the archives at Dulwich College coming up in January 2015 (?). Approximately 60 tickets.
Hallowtide: Antiquaries of Terror, 31 October 2014
Halloween storytelling event: Jon Kaneko-Jones reads excerpts from Arthur Machen's "The White People," M.R. James "A View from a Hill" and magician Sieggfried Loew's explores Marlowe's character of Doctor Faustus.
Concert: Country and Acoustic Music, 13 October 2014
Country and Acoustic music in celebration of Canadian Thanksgiving featuring the Umbrella Birds, Nigel of Bermondsey, Andy Hank Dog hosted by Woody with "licensed saloon"
Open Day in association with gala fundraiser, "Shakespeare in Love" (stage play), 25 July 2014
Special Open Day to coincide with performance of Shakespeare in Love (stage play) as charity fundraiser for The Rose and Chicken Shed Theatre at the Duke of York's, St Martin's Lane.
Lecture: MoLA "The Archaeology of London's Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres" 7 April 2014
Panel discussion by archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology including Julian Bowsher, Heather Knight, Pat Miller, and David Saxby, chaired and moderated by Professor Andrew Gurr, University of Reading and Rose Theatre trustee. 68 tickets.…
'Books do Furnish a Room': Book Bonanza, 1 March 2014
Book donation and selling fundraising event as part of World Book Day.
"Save the Rose: As seen from the eyes of one Southwark resident". Richard Miller film screening, 10 February 2014
Screening of Save the Rose film with an introductory talk by Richard Miller
National Storytelling Week, 2 February 2014
Thameside Tellers tells stories from around the world including "Betty Mundy's Bottom". Approximately 59 participants.
Concert: A Concert for Christmas, 9 December 2013
Christmas carol sing-along with free mince pies and warm mulled wine. Wonky Rose illustration by Pepe Pryke. 7:30 PM
Lecture: "Excavating Shakespeare's Shoreditch" with Heather Knight, MoLA, 11 November 2013
Heather Knight, senior archaeologist at MoLA (Museum of London Archaeology) talk about the discovery and excavations of the Theatre and the Curtain in Shoreditch. Photographs of Knight at the excavation at the Curtain and Theatre.