Jessica Ruano and Victoria Grove came to the Rose for the first time yesterday to rehearse in site for the first time, these are some of Jessica’s thoughts that can be found on her blog – www.sappho9fragments.com
Sappho Rehearsal at The Rose – Day 1
Victoria and I rehearsed in The Rose for the first time yesterday [...]
Happy Birthday Mr William Shakespeare!
Sonneteer’s join us at The Rose, Bankside to celebrate the Bard of Avons 449th Birthday!
Review from ONE STOP ARTS *****
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Though occasionally prone to the kind of avant-garde solemnity that can have a Marmite effect on audiences, this revival of Pirandello’s 1921 play at the new old Rose is a conceptual masterstroke, executed with intelligence and flair. At the Rose, Bankside.
On paper, reviving Six [...]
There are some genuine laughs and Rhiannon Sommers and James Burgess are engaging enough as the lovers. While the tragic scenes are not as successfully carried out, there is a pleasing simplicity to the moment of Dido’s demise, her body dropping into a bed of red silks.
Suzanne Marie gets into Vancouver Sun newspaper!
“DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE: Within a stone’s throw of London’s river from Feb. 5, audiences at the resurrected Rose Theatre will see 10-year expatriate Suzanne Marie Taylor play Ophelia and Gertrude in Hamlet. The show was last staged at that local in 1594, when playwright William shakespeare stood in [...]
Hamlet at Rose Theatre Bankside
Reviewed by Alice Dickerson
A fast-paced Hamlet which still manages to surprise, despite the play’s familiarity.
Despite much scholarly research, there remain many theories about Shakespeare’s body of work. One is these theories focuses on the length of his plays; some feel that the lengthier ones could not have been performed in their [...]
The STAGE
Hamlet (Published Friday 8 February 2013 at 11:11 by Lauren Paxman)
A 90-minute Hamlet which manages to keep in all of the best bits might sound totally unrealistic to some Shakespeare fans. But few of them will be disappointed by this whistle stop production.
A cast of just four make you fall in love with the [...]