Set in the city banking sector during the current debt crisis the Rose will open the 2012 season with a modern dress production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Love is caught up in a whirlwind of market forces in this dark comedy set in the world of high finance. The quality of mercy [...]
The Kingdom of Lear: a place dominated by decadence, wealth, liquor, and jazz. The ageing Lear must divide his kingdom between his three daughters, but when Cordelia, the youngest of the three, is unable to express her love for the King, things begin to spiral out of the old King’s control.
Taking inspiration from the 1920’s [...]
The Museum of London Archives
The Museum of London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre will kindly open its doors for the Friends of the Rose.
We will be given an exclusive tour of the Archives as well as some Rose related artefacts.
A glass of wine and light refreshments will be included.
The tour will take place [...]
Regarded by some as Shakespeare’s first play, The Comedy of Errors comes to The Rose, Bankside now for the first time. Elements of farce combined with touchingly emotional themes of loss and reconciliation would return much later in more sombre ways, in works such as Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale. In The Comedy of [...]
Join us for a tour of Elizabethan London’s Liberty of the Clink, home of the Bishop of Winchester, London’s iconic Rose and Globe Theatres and the foul industries that even the Elizabethans considered unsightly. Hear about London’s three cities, the Frost Fairs and the Winchester Geese, culminating with exclusive access to the Rose, Bankside where [...]
After a successful and nominated run of Shakespeare’s Henry VI part I in May 2011 at The Rose, Bankside, Joan’s story rises from the ashes once more in George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan’.
“You forget that Shakespeare is still held responsible for the first part of ‘Henry VI’, with its infamous libel on Joan. She [...]
Shakespeare’s tragic romance comes to the Rose, Bankside. For four hundred years Romeo and Juliet has never lost its popularity or universal appeal. Highly influential across all art forms and a play for all ages- a truly universal play. Shakespeare’s most adapted and internationally successful play has never been been performed at the Rose, regardless [...]
Set against the background of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, which took place in Utah, USA in 1857. Two-Headed focuses on the struggling friendship between two Mormon women whose lives are overshadowed by the dark events of their childhood. Suitable for anyone who has ever had to live with a terrible secret
All performances at 7.30 pm [...]
The Rose presents Shakespeare’s sexually explicit work.
A staged version of his poem based on parts of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and an insight into the psychologies behind love, youthful lust and grief.
Note: Performances Tuesday 2nd – Sunday 5th August
And Tuesday 14th – Saturday 25th
All performances at 7.30 pm (Sundays 3.00 pm only)
No Monday Performances
Gerard Logan (Olivier Award nominee and RSC actor ) stars in the first ever solo adaptation of Shakespeare’s brilliant, brutal narrative poem about the dreadful crime of rape and its aftershock. Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, shining a light on a band of human behaviour encompassing the bestial and the beautiful.
Gerard won Best Solo Performer [...]