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External video: Rally for the Rose (Ben Prusiner), 21 November 2020
Fundraising video (1:41:20) with various contributors from Dame Judi Dench to Sir Simon Hughes and others involved in the 1989 protests that saved the…
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Researching the Rose: In Conversation – Jesse Berger, Founder & Artistic Director of Red Bull Theater, New York, 12 April 2024
Learn first-hand about Red…
Researching the Rose: Domestic Tragedy, Lost and Found with Dr Emma Whipday, 26 January 2026 (postponed)
Researching the Rose: Before The Rose: Marlowe at The Curtain with Dr Callan Davies, 11 May 2026
His ‘mighty lines’…
Researching the Rose: Beasts of Bankside with Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright, & Professor Hannah O'Regan, 8 December 2025
Researching the Rose: Ballads as Theatre 'Merch' in Shakespeare's London with Professor Tiffany Stern, 27 April 2026
Reading: Richard Briers and Janet Suzman, 13 January 2007
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Photo: Rose hoardings during Rose Court remodel, 30 June 2021
Photo: Rose hoardings during Rose Court remodel, 30 June 2020
Photo: Rose hoardings during Rose Court remodel, 20 August 2020
Photo: Rose hoardings during Rose Court remodel, 11 December 2020. FIX file name and reupload with correct year
Photo: Rose hoardings during Rose Court remodel, 11 December 2020
Photo: Rose hoardings during Rose Court remodel, 11 December 2020
Photo: Rose Court, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court remodeling project, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court remodeling project as seen from under Southwark Bridge approach, 21 July 2021
The original Globe site is just to the left in this photo.
Photo: Rose Court remodel, main entrance to the Rose, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court remodel, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court remodel project, inside the main door at the Rose, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court exterior, 20 August 2020
Photo: Rose Court construction over exterior pavement on southern exterior, 21 July 2021
Photo: Rose Court and FT building, construction, April 2022
Shared with permission
Photo: Rose Court - removal of blue plaque for safe-keeping, 21 July 2021
Photo: eastern view of Rose Court, 22 July 2021
Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow, Pepe Pryke leaving party, 25 May 2018
Open House London, 20 September 2008
Tags: event, model, photographs
Open House London, 19 September 2009
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Open House London, 18 September 2010
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Open House London, 17 September 2011
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Open House London, 17 September 2005
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Open House London, 16 September 2006
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Open House London, 15 September 2007
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Open Days, August Summer Openings, 8-30 August 2025
£6 admission for adults and teens; £20…
Open Day: Rose Open Days, January-April 2004
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Open Day: Open Day at the Rose Theatre, 18 September 2004
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Open Day: Festival of British Archaeology at the Rose, 9 July 2009
"Genius of Marlowe" screening
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Open Day in association with gala fundraiser, "Shakespeare in Love" (stage play), 25 July 2014
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National Storytelling Week, 2 February 2014
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National Archaeology Week, 15-16 July 2006
(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.
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National Archaeology Week, 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…
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National Archaeology Week, 12 July 2008
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My Bloody Valentine: Antiquaries of Love, 16 February 2015
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Marlowe grave commemoration in Deptford, 30 May 1993
London Architecture Biennale, 23 June 2006
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Lecture: MoLA "The Archaeology of London's Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres" 7 April 2014
Tags: archaeology, Bowsher, event, Knight, MoLA, Pat Miller, Saxby
Lecture: Julian Bowsher, "The Rose: Archaeology, History, Drama", 20 May 2019
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Lecture: Julian Bowsher, "Recent Research on the Playhouses of Shakespeare's London", 10 October 2011
Tags: archaeology, archeaologist, Bowsher, event, Lecture
Lecture: "The Rose Revealed" at STR by Jon Greenfield, architect, 16 November 2006
Lecture: "The Animal-Baiting Arenas on Bankside" by David Saxby
MoLA, 15 July 2013
Tags: animal, archaeology, bear-baiting, event, MoLA
Lecture: "Shakespeare's Kings" by John Julius Norwich at Museum of London Weston Theatre, 11 November 2015
Lecture: "Excavating Shakespeare's Shoreditch" with Heather Knight, MoLA, 11 November 2013
Tags: archaeology, Curtain, event, MoLA, Theatre
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture: Sir Gregory Doran - 'Titus Revisited', at LSBU, 27 March 2024
Huscared bust of Shakespeare viewing, 31 January 2013
HLF Launch at the British Museum, 15 November 2012 (ADD TO THIS)
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Happy Christmas from the Rose, handout message to supporters, September 2005
Tags: blue plaque, Christmas, event
Hallowtide: Antiquaries of Terror, 31 October 2014
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Guided walk: The Rose with Pepe Pryke for the Canadian Women's Club, 27 September 2007
Guided Walk: The Rose with Pepe Pryke for the Canadian Women's Club, 10 April 2008
Ghosts Revenants & Witch Hunters: Halloween at The Rose, 28 October 2012
Friends of the Rose, Newsletter, November 2022
The Future of the Rose by Peter Jolly
Meet Your Trustees
December webinar - Gary Andrews "A Christmas Carol"
The Canterville Ghost
All Soules by Franki Gray
Friends' AGM
Actors Wanted
Actors Behaving Badly…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Winter 2017
The Rose Playhouse Open Days
"The Lost Valley of London"
"From Watermen to Charterhouse" (Visits to Watermens' and Lightermens' Hall, Tower at Canonbury Place, and Charterhouse)
"The Rose and…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Winter 2016
Shakespeare's Kings
Music, Song, and Dance
Christmas Carol Concert
Who Wants to be a Volunteer?
Friends Facebook Group
Winter and Spring Events at the Rose ("Hamlet", 2-26 February 2016. "Doctor…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Summer 2016
Funding for the Rose;
Outing to Ightham Mote;
Donations to the Rose;
A Triumph for the Rose;
"Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On";
The Rose Unfolds - Salon Season;
Summer Performance Programme ("Othello's…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Summer 2015
Southwark honours Rose Chairman
Visit to the Museum of the Order of St John
Rose Readathon III
Rose Diary
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Summer 2014
The Rose and the Red Carpet
The Rose Readathon
Donation to the Rose
Autumn Performance Programme ("The Woman in the Moon" 16 September-4 October 2014, "The Massacre at Paris" 7-26 October 2014, "Antiquaries of…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Spring 2016
Will Power or Quill Power?
Shakespearean Musings
Midnight Matinee
The Brandenburg Concert
News from the Board
The Lost Valley of London
Friends Facebook Group
Spring Performance Programme ("Measure for Measure", 10-29 May…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Spring 2015
Spring Performance Programme ("Othello" 3-28 Feb 2015, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" 3-28 March 2015, "Macbeth" 5-30 May 2015)
Christmas Carol Concert
Gastronomico-Historico Treat
The Friends AGM 2014
Ruffs and Chocolates…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Spring 2014
Friends of the Rose Events
Production News
Performance Listings at the Rose ("A Trick to Catch the Old One" 6-24 May 2014, "Orpheus and Eurydice" selected dates in June 2014, "A Festival of…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Spring 2013 REDACTED
Performances: "Sappho in 9 Fragments", "The Alchemist", "Macbeth", "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Shirley Newton Honorary Friend
Friends visit to Middle Temple
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, September 2023
Memorial Service for Linda Shannon by Wendy Hemmings
A matter of life and death - and a celebration by Christina Skaife
Michaelmas ... and Goose day! by Franki Gray
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, September 2022
Friends AGM
Call for Committee Members
The Rose Website
Meet Your Trustees - Kathy Dacre
"Shakespear 'Offstage' - Nothing New Under the Sun!" (article by Franki Gray)
The Princes in the Tower
Reviews…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, September 2021
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, September 2018
"The Wrong Side of the River" announcement
Membership Form Data Protection Contact Permissions
Autumn Programme
Annual General Meeting
Open Days: Dates for your Diary
"The Alleyns Rose Dancers"
Martext at the Rose Playhouse
"Edward and…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, September 2001
Newsletter No.7. Articles: impacts on tourism due to 9/11 and foot and mouth disease; Trial pit excavation…
Tags: archaeology, Blatherwick, Hughes, trial pit
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, October 2021
Webinar reviews (Exploring Archaeology in Roman Southwark);
Upcoming webinar (The Sixth Devil and the College of God's Gift, Dulwich);
"St Crispin's Day: 25th October";
Volunteer get-together;
"Theatres…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, October 2018
"My Experience at the Rose Theatre"
Open Days" Dates for your Diary
"Marlowe" The Performer's Playwright"
Autumn Performances
Winter Shivers
"The Wrong Side of the River"
Rose Court
"Edward and Joan: A Celebration"
Tudor…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, October 2000
Pepe's Mural
Craft Fair
Philip Henslowe's Medical Hints
Update: A Rose for Islington
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, November/December 2021
Meet Your Trustees biographies (Dacre, Smith, Brierley, Cottrell, Doughty, Edmondson, James, Livingstone, Salvadori, Spottiswoode);
2021-2022 Friends Committee membership list;
Upcoming webinar ("The Blue…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, November 2024
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…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, November 2023
Are You Looking Forward to Christmas and the Winter Holiday Season? by Franki Gray
Of Yesteryear by Christina Skaife
Friends' Visit: Dulwich College Archive Guided Exhibition…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, November 2017
Christmas in London
"Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender"
Donation to the Rose
Sumptuary Reflections
Membership
Tudor Trivia
Readathon
Arts Corner (Theatre: "Shakespeares: Scenes from a Marriage", Rose…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, November 2011
The Rose Performance Season November 2011 to Summer 2012 ("Measure for Measure" 4…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, November 2002
Rose Theatre Trust and Company
The Rose Circle of Friends
Welcome to the Upper Circle
'Shakespeare in Love'
A Reconstruction of the Rose in Massachusetts
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, May 2023
Readathon 3 June 2023
Researching the Rose talks:
Citizen Players, Playgoing Citizens - Professor Tracey Hill
The "Legend of Lies" : Romance and Anti-Romance at the Rose - Dr Kim Gilchrist
Henslowe, Theatrical…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, May 2021
New Friend announcement;
Webinar review (Cleopatra and the Boys - an Unfashionable Essay);
Upcoming webinar (Shakespeare, Lavs and Loo Paper);
"The Sumptuary Laws";
Volunteer…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, May 2017
Spring Performances ("A Night in Vienna", 24 May 2017. "Because We Want To", 27 May 2017)
Friends Visits (Charterhouse, Wilton's Music Hall)
Dinner at Clothmakers' Hall
"Now See Dem Bones..." and More
"Watermen, Lightermen and a…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, May 2000
Plea for Volunteers
Staffing
Tate Modern
Upcoming Events ("The Archaeology of London's Tudor and Stuart Playhouses" 27 July 2000, Craft Fair)
Southwark Heritage Fair
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, March 2024
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,…