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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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Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2024
What Is Happening at the Rose by Peter Jolly
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture - Sir Gregory Doran: "Titus Andronicus Revisited" by Norma Wilshaw
Valentine's and Other Romantic Non-Sense by Franki Gray
Fanfare for the Common Man by…
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture - Sir Gregory Doran: "Titus Andronicus Revisited" by Norma Wilshaw
Valentine's and Other Romantic Non-Sense by Franki Gray
Fanfare for the Common Man by…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, March 2024
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture - Sir Gregory Doran: "Titus Andronicus Revisited"
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,…
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,…
Rose Facebook post, 25 March 2024
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture: "Titus Revisited" by Sir Gregory Doran
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…
Rose Facebook post, 19 April 2024
Publicity for upcoming open days:
Costume - May 4th
Play-reading: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare - June 1st
Costume - May 4th
Play-reading: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare - June 1st
Rose Facebook post, 1 May 2024
Ticketing page link for Open Day - Costume on Saturday May 4th organised by The Friends of the Rose. See a replica of the outfit worn by Joan Alleyn in her portrait.
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, June 2024
Social gathering for Friends
Site-Opening Trials (Costumes, Play Reading)
Play-Reading Review
"Jolly June"
"First Sonic Walk Trials of 2024"
"Our Restless Earth"
Site-Opening Trials (Costumes, Play Reading)
Play-Reading Review
"Jolly June"
"First Sonic Walk Trials of 2024"
"Our Restless Earth"
Rose Facebook post, 3 July 2024
Researching the Rose - "Borrowed Feathers: Robert Greene & The Rose Playhouse" by Dr Darren Freebury-Jones. Sleazy parasite. Quaffer of Rhenish wine and pickled herring. Pantomimic arch-rival of William
Shakespeare. Or have we done Robert Greene a…
Shakespeare. Or have we done Robert Greene a…
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
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, August 2024
Upcoming Webinar:
"Much Ado about Numbers, Rob Eastaway"
The Rose's Seventh Readathon
Readathon Hats
"A Visit to The Rose Playhouse by The Strawberry Hill Volunteers"
"House of Easement"
"A Submission" (Christina Skaife)
Other News (Alleyn…
"Much Ado about Numbers, Rob Eastaway"
The Rose's Seventh Readathon
Readathon Hats
"A Visit to The Rose Playhouse by The Strawberry Hill Volunteers"
"House of Easement"
"A Submission" (Christina Skaife)
Other News (Alleyn…
Rose Facebook post, 3 September 2024
"MUCH ADO ABOUT NUMBERS" lecture by Rob Eastaway. In this highly engaging talk, award-winning author Rob Eastaway explores the surprising and
creative ways that numbers crop up in Shakespeare's plays, as well as in Henslowe's 'diary' of
The Rose…
creative ways that numbers crop up in Shakespeare's plays, as well as in Henslowe's 'diary' of
The Rose…
Rose Facebook post, 8 September 2024
Seventh Rose Readathon presented by The Friends of the Rose, featuring the following plays:
Dr Faustus
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Alchemist
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Dr Faustus
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Alchemist
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Rose Facebook post, 16 September 2024
"MUCH ADO ABOUT NUMBERS" lecture by Rob Eastaway. In this highly engaging talk, award-winning author Rob Eastaway explores the surprising and
creative ways that numbers crop up in Shakespeare's plays, as well as in Henslowe's 'diary' of
The Rose…
creative ways that numbers crop up in Shakespeare's plays, as well as in Henslowe's 'diary' of
The Rose…
Rose Facebook post, 18 October 2024
The Alleyn's 432nd Wedding Anniversary Celebration - Discover how a rich, aspiring middle-class Tudor couple would have celebrated their wedding
anniversary.
anniversary.
Edward and Joan Alleyn’s Wedding Anniversary, 19 October 2024
"Joan Woodward was the stepdaughter of Philip Henslowe who built The Rose Playhouse. Edward Alleyn was a leading Elizabethan actor and the favourite of Elizabeth I. He and Philip Henslowe had their fingers in many business deals, including brothels,…
Rose Facebook post, 30 November 2024
Researching the Rose - "How to do things with shoes: Digging (for) Dekker's footwear & footwork at The Rose" online talk by Professor Natasha Korda
Rose Facebook post, 30 November 2024
Researching the Rose - "How to do things with shoes: Digging (for) Dekker's footwear & footwork at The Rose" online talk by Professor Natasha Korda
Rose Facebook post, 22 December 2024
Twelfth Night Celebration: discover how Twelfth Night was celebrated at Elizabeth I's court, meet the dancers, and take part in the mayhem.
Rose Facebook post, 6 January 2025
Discovery Day: Play Reading on Saturday February 1st organised by The Friends of the Rose. Watch or take part in a reading of Robin Hood at the Rose site
Rose Facebook post, 9 February 2025
Discovery Day: Costume on Saturday March 1st organised by The Friends of the Rose. Replica of Edward Alleyn's portrait outfit is displayed at the Rose site
Rose Facebook post, 16 March 2025
Discovery Day: A Tudor Easter on Saturday April 5th organised by The Friends of the Rose. Featuring talks on Easter customs in Elizabethan England, food, and dancing.
Rose Facebook post, 3 April 2025
Discovery Day: A Tudor Easter on Saturday April 5th organised by The Friends of the Rose. Featuring talks on Easter customs in Elizabethan England, food, and dancing.
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
Rose Facebook post, 24 April 2025
Discovery Day: Archaeology on Saturday May 3rd organised by The Friends of the Rose. Visit the archaeological site of the playhouse and handle objects from the Elizabethan period.
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.
Rose Facebook post, 29 May 2025
Discovery Day: Play reading - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. Celebrate the Summer solstice at The Rose Playhouse with a one hour unrehearsed script-in-hand reading of Shakespeare's magical comedy.
Rose Playhouse Website, June 2025-present, sixth site, captured August 2025
Rose Playhouse Website, launched June 2025
With pages for:
Our history
Who wrote for us (playwrights)
Shakespeare
Rediscovery
Preservation
Our future, etc
With pages for:
Our history
Who wrote for us (playwrights)
Shakespeare
Rediscovery
Preservation
Our future, etc
Rose Facebook post, 19 June 2025
Discovery Day: Play Reading on Saturday June 21st organised by The Friends of the Rose. Watch or join in a play reading of Midsummer Night's Dream on the summer solstice
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.
Rose Facebook post, 26 June 2025
Discovery Day: Archaeology on Saturday July 5th organised by The Friends of the Rose. Visit the archaeological site of the playhouse and handle objects from the Elizabethan period.
"The Sonic Trail: A Playgoer's Journey": 1587 Sonic Walk (guided walk in Bankside and Queenhithe) using Echoes geolocated immersive audio guide), 2025
Self-guided, geo-located sonic walk from Bankside, over Southwark Bridge, by Queenhithe, Millennium Bridge and through Rose Alley. 75 minutes. User is guided as if they were attending a performance of Dr Faustus in 1587 at the Rose. Site-specific,…
Rose Facebook post, 4 July 2025
Discovery Day: Archaeology on Saturday July 5th organised by The Friends of the Rose. Visit the archaeological site of the playhouse and handle objects from the Elizabethan period.
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.
Rose Facebook post, 9 July 2025
August 2nd Discovery Day at the Rose Theatre with a demonstration of a replica of Joan Alleyn's portrait attire
Rose Facebook post, 18 July 2025
Photo of new rope lights installed at the archaeological site outlining the walls of the seating galleries and the front of the stage
Rose Facebook post, 26 July 2025
August 2nd Discovery Day at the Rose Theatre with a demonstration of a replica of Joan Alleyn's portrait attire
Rose Facebook post, 1 August 2025
August 2nd Discovery Day at the Rose Theatre with a demonstration of a replica of Joan Alleyn's portrait attire
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…
Rose Facebook post, 6 August 2025
Publicity for the "August Summer Holiday Openings" including info about new sonic trail
Rose Facebook post, 20 August 2025
Publicity for the final two "August Summer Holiday Openings" on Friday August 22nd and Saturday August 30th, including info about new sonic trail
Rose Facebook post, 28 August 2025
Publicity for the final "August Summer Holiday Opening" on Saturday August 30th, including info about new sonic trail
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…
Rose Facebook post, 31 August 2025
Eighth Rose Readathon presented by The Friends of the Rose, featuring the following plays:
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Rose Facebook post, 31 August 2025
Eighth Rose Readathon presented by The Friends of the Rose, featuring the following plays:
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Rose Facebook post, 6 September 2025
Eighth Rose Readathon presented by The Friends of the Rose, featuring the following plays:
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Rose Facebook post, 6 September 2025
Eighth Rose Readathon presented by The Friends of the Rose, featuring the following plays:
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Rose Facebook post, 12 September 2025
Eighth Rose Readathon presented by The Friends of the Rose, featuring the following plays:
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Comedy of Errors
The Massacre at Paris
The Alchemist
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Rose Playhouse Bluesky feed,
17 November 2024 to 15 September 2025
One year of Rose Playhouse BlueSky posts:
17 November 2024 to 15 September 2025
See The Rose Playhouse Facebook (main page) for more publicity posts from 2012 to present.)
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17 November 2024 to 15 September 2025
See The Rose Playhouse Facebook (main page) for more publicity posts from 2012 to present.)
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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…
Rose Facebook post, 2 October 2025
Researching the Rose - "Page of Plymouth - Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play" online talk by Helen Chaloner and David Prescott. An introduction by Helen Chaloner & David Prescott to 'Page of Plymouth', an exciting new
project launching in…
project launching in…
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
Rose Facebook post, 15 October 2025
Discovery Day: The Alleyn's 433rd Wedding Anniversary Celebration - Come and discover how a rich, aspiring middle-class Elizabethan couple would have celebrated such an event.
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: 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…
Rose Facebook post, 29 October 2025
Discovery Day: Richard III play reading. Take part in or watch a one hour reading of "Richard III" by William Shakespeare and learn about Elizabethan cue scripts.
Richard III play reading, 1 November 2025
Friends of the Rose host a participatory play-reading of Richard III
Rose Facebook post, 3 November 2025
Researching the Rose - "Pub Crawling with Playhouses" online talk by Professor Laurie Johnson. Join Professor Laurie Johnson, President of the Marlowe Society of America, for an enjoyable ramble around the inns, taverns and ale-houses of Elizabethan…
Rose Facebook post, 8 November 2025
Researching the Rose - "Pub Crawling with Playhouses" online talk by Professor Laurie Johnson. Join Professor Laurie Johnson, President of the Marlowe Society of America, for an enjoyable ramble around the inns, taverns and ale-houses of Elizabethan…
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 training at RADA.
Click URL to view the interview on Youtube
Click URL to view the interview on Youtube
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
Rose Facebook post, 12 November 2025
Researching the Rose - "Joan Alleyn - No Mouse" online talk by Calista Lucy. Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, and the wife…
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…
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: 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…
Rose Facebook post, 4 January 2026
"Join legendary theatre director TINA PACKER, founder of Shakespeare & Company in Western Massachusetts, as she traces the emergence of theatres in Elizabethan London.
Why were there no playhouses in London for hundreds of years, and then in a very…
Why were there no playhouses in London for hundreds of years, and then in a very…
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.
Rose Facebook post, 14 January 2026
"Presented in conjunction with Literature Works and the Page of Plymouth project.
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…
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…
Rose Facebook post, 21 January 2026
"This coming Monday...
A catch-up link will be given on request to anyone who has bought a ticket, but who, for whatever reason, can't make in on the day."
A catch-up link will be given on request to anyone who has bought a ticket, but who, for whatever reason, can't make in on the day."
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: 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: 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."
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 Rose and the following decades of preserving the site with readings from 1989, etc. Produced for…
Rose Theatre website, third site, captured on 18 May 2013
Website captured used The Internet Archive Wayback Machine in March 2025; Some pages are missing: Sappho Rehearsal, Sonneteers News, Six Characters in Search of an Author News, and "Older Pages" link.
Rose Theatre Website, 2001-2006, first site, captured as it was April 2001
Website captured used The Internet Archive Wayback Machine in March 2025; Some pages are missing: Friends, Volunteers, Education, and Shop
Rose Theatre Website, 2014-2016 (?), fourth site, captured as it was September 2015
Website captured used The Internet Archive Wayback Machine in March 2025