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Coronation appetiser0
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- 29th April 2023
With exquisite timing, the Rose Theatre’s latest offering is a royal epic centred on coronations. Opening a week ahead of King Charles III’s crowning, Richard III sees experimental thesp Adjoa Andoh (known to millions as Lady Danbury from Bridgerton) turn a title role traditionally depicting a white male hunchback into a petite black villain to
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Vibrant mural in Victoria Rec0
- Arts, Environment, News
- 10th March 2023
Check out the new mural on the pavilion at Victoria Rec this weekend. Created by designers and illustrators Harriet Palmer and Sunnie Newby, it is part of a Surbiton Art Trail project to add interest and brighten up public spaces in the area. The design depicts things that the duo like most about the park
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A cracking good whodunnit0
You can create all the bold, innovative modern theatre you like, but there’s something reassuringly alluring about the murder mystery queen Agatha Christie’s whodunnits… and The Mirror Crack’d, on at Kingston’s Rose this week, ticks all the boxes. With its clever digs at Britain’s social class inequality, and its portrayal of a slow-witted PC Plod
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Teen drama revives0
- Arts
- 3rd February 2023
Twenty years ago, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses book series was published, aimed squarely at teenagers. Now it’s a stage play at Kingston’s Rose, set in an oppressive world where our heroes, Callum and Sephy (we’re encouraged to think Romeo and Juliet) come from different sides of the tracks – where the colour of your
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Xmas Carol is a feelgood fillip0
Fancy a feelgood fillip to counteract these cold, cheerless days? The Rose Theatre’s festive show – always a high point of the year – is a truly spectacular pick-me-up. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s interpretation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a vibrant musical led by a surprisingly small adult cast of five, backed by a splendid
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Train show dodges strikes0
No rail strikes are planned for this weekend, which is a mercy as Tolworth Showtrain, the popular model railway exhibition at Tolworth Recreation Centre, can go full steam ahead. If you thought model train layouts were rather lonely affairs confined to attics, think again. The event on Sat Nov 12 and Sun Nov 13 represents
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Wildlife mural transforms Tolworth roundabout
- Arts, Environment, News
- 10th July 2020
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- Arts, Poetry Cheese
- 21st July 2020
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