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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: "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: '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: Exploring Archaeology in Roman Southwark, 18 October 2021
Three speakers: Chris Constable, Ireneo Grosso, and Antonietta Lerz. Introduced by Harvey Sheldon
Webinar: "The Blue Carbuncle...Another Evening with Gary Andrews," 14 December 2021
Reading, online zoom event
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: "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: "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: "Making The Text Ours", Jonathan Livingstone, 30 March 2021
Jonathan Livingston, actor, shares performance strategies for actors to effectively inhabit early modern texts.
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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "‘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: " 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…
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.
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,…
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…
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 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 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 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.
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.
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: "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: "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: "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
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
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…
Shakespeare Revealed. International Month at the Rose, 2 April 2013
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Something is Rotten at the Rose: Hamlet and Sonnet reading event, Sonneteers Come to the Rose
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.
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
Richard III play reading, 1 November 2025
Friends of the Rose host a participatory play-reading of Richard III
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.
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: 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: 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: 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."
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."
Reading: Richard Briers and Janet Suzman, 13 January 2007
Event and fundraiser for the Rose, raised over £1,200 organized and produced by Tony Toller (RTT)
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.)
Open House London, 20 September 2008
The Rose participated in Open House London, an annual event when sites normally not open to the public open their doors for tours. Special access given to historic and cultural sites in London . Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx…
Open House London, 19 September 2009
Participant information, application, and correspondence in preparation for the event on 19-20 September 2009. The Rose participated in Open House London. Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx 25 mins), see the site of the 1989…
Open House London, 18 September 2010
Application form, correspondence, insurance info, etc. The Rose participated in Open House London. Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx 25 mins), see the site of the 1989 excavation now covered by water and protective layers of sand…
Open House London, 17 September 2011
The Rose participated in Open House London. Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx 25 mins), see the site of the 1989 excavation now covered by water and protective layers of sand and porous concrete, and ask volunteer docents about…
Open House London, 17 September 2005
The Rose participated in Open House London. Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx 25 mins), see the site of the 1989 excavation now covered by water and protective layers of sand and porous concrete, and ask volunteer docents about…
Open House London, 16 September 2006
The Rose participated in Open House London. Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx 25 mins), see the site of the 1989 excavation now covered by water and protective layers of sand and porous concrete, and ask volunteer docents about…
Open House London, 15 September 2007
The Rose participated in Open House London. Visitors were able to see the Rose documentary (approx 25 mins), see the site of the 1989 excavation now covered by water and protective layers of sand and porous concrete, and ask volunteer docents about…
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…
Open Day: Rose Open Days, January-April 2004
flyer or handbill for public access and events in January to April 2004 including open days, children's story telling, and performances of BeLIEve, Second Best Bed, "Under the Greenwood Tree" Thomas Hardy Evening (concert), and Simon Tarrant oil…
Open Day: Open Day at the Rose Theatre, 18 September 2004
flyer announcing open day at the Rose on September 18, 2004 from 11:00 to 5:00 with cartoon performer and drawing of Bankside with playhouses and environs. Free admission. Invitation to join the Friends of the Rose with membership donation and…
Open Day: Festival of British Archaeology at the Rose, 9 July 2009
"Genius of Marlowe" screening
SE1 newsletter (monthly) for July 2009 with Rose events included on pages 3 and 6: "Gift to the Future", "Mass Suicide Club" and "The Genius of Marlowe", also Metro announcement of London Bridge Festival
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.
National Storytelling Week, 2 February 2014
Thameside Tellers tells stories from around the world including "Betty Mundy's Bottom". Approximately 59 participants.
National Archaeology Week, 15-16 July 2006
Open Day at the Rose: 15-16 July and 22-23 July
(Rose not an official participant in sponsored event) National Archaeology Week is a week of open houses and events celebrating UK archaeology sites sponsored by English Heritage.
(Rose not an official participant in sponsored event) National Archaeology Week is a week of open houses and events celebrating UK archaeology sites sponsored by English Heritage.
National Archaeology Week, 14-22 July 2007
Event dates: 14 - 22 July 2007
Open Day at the Rose: "Visit the Rose and become part of the theatre's history where Shakespeare learnt his craft." Rose listed on page 43. Special talks by RTT trustees Harvey Sheldon (Saturday, 14 July) and Andrew…
Open Day at the Rose: "Visit the Rose and become part of the theatre's history where Shakespeare learnt his craft." Rose listed on page 43. Special talks by RTT trustees Harvey Sheldon (Saturday, 14 July) and Andrew…
National Archaeology Week, 12 July 2008
A week of open houses and events celebrating UK archaeology sites sponsored by Council for British Archaeology (CBA). "The archaeological site of the first Elizabethan Theatre on Bankside where Shakespeare learnt his craft." Booklet, page 27. Event…
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…
Marlowe grave commemoration in Deptford, 30 May 1993
Church service and celebration of Marlowe's memorial marker, RSC, RTT, and others
London Architecture Biennale, 23 June 2006
"Shakespeare, Social Space and Design" guided walk on 23 June in Bankside in Southwark led by David Marshall. Although map does not pass the Rose, it was likely included in this walk due to Marshall's close association with the Rose (volunteer,…
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.…
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…
Lecture: Julian Bowsher, "Recent Research on the Playhouses of Shakespeare's London", 10 October 2011
Julian Bowsher, senior archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology, lecture on the discovery, excavation and assessment The Theatre in Shoreditch and its relation or comparison with the Rose. 58 tickets, £390.
Lecture: "The Rose Revealed" at STR by Jon Greenfield, architect, 16 November 2006
The Society for Theatre Research (STR) hosts a lecture "The Rose Revealed" by Jon Greenfield, architect, as part of The Winter Lecture Series 2006-2007 with Iain Mackintosh as chair. Location: The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1, 7:30.
Lecture: "The Animal-Baiting Arenas on Bankside" by David Saxby
MoLA, 15 July 2013
David Saxby, senior archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) lecture on animal baiting and the last bear garden, Davie's bear baiting arena, 1662 to 1684. Map.