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  • A cracking good whodunnit

    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 revives

    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 fillip

    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 strikes

    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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  • Farce feels newly minted

    Farce feels newly minted0

    • Arts
    • 5th November 2022

    Oscar Wilde’s witty farce The Importance of Being Earnest has been given a vigorous twist at Kingston’s Rose, with a black cast directed by Denzel Westley-Sanderson. Lady Bracknell is played like a pantomime dame by drag queen Daniel Jacob, whose exaggerated camp gestures and mobile eyebrows almost seem superfluous in a show in which Wilde’s

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  • Epic saga sweeps Rose stage

    Epic saga sweeps Rose stage0

    • Arts
    • 7th October 2022

    There’s a spectacular scale and scope to the Rose Theatre’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, once a mainstay of drama groups the world over but now performed less frequently. This is a big, bold, epic production, with the performers taking on dozens of different roles in a flurry of costume changes –

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