Christopher Haydon

Spellbinding drama at the Rose 0
- Arts
- 26th September 2024
To grab an audience and hold them spellbound for two and a half hours in our world of short soundbites and glanced memes is a rare thing. Never Let Me Go, at Kingston’s Rose, does just that, thanks to a sharp script (Suzanne Heathcote), pacy direction (Chris Haydon) and a whirl of outstanding performances, notably
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Ingenious show enthrals 0
- Arts
- 6th October 2023
Ingenious and riveting, the Rose’s latest show – Shooting Hedda Gabler – enthralled last night’s audience. It’s an innovative new drama that owes its existence to a lockdown, distanced conversation in a park between the Kingston theatre’s artistic director Christopher Haydon and playwright Nina Segal. The lights come up on a Norwegian film set, where
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Epic saga sweeps Rose stage 0
- 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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Fancy making a film?0
- Arts
- 24th January 2022
Chris Haydon – artistic director at Kingston’s Rose Theatre – has urged young Surbiton film-makers to be part of a new silver-screen festival this summer. Pictured on the left of this triumvirate of worthies, Chris said that the line between theatre and cinema had blurred in lockdown, opening up extra avenues to success for anyone
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A dramatic tour de force 0
- Arts
- 11th November 2021
Compelling and absorbing, the latest offering from the Rose is a wide-ranging exploration of modern issues, referencing women created by a playwright a mere 2,500 years ago. Yet you need to know nothing about Euripides or the subjects of his ancient Greek writings to appreciate the mesmerising stagecraft of Niamh Cusack and Shannon Hayes as
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Can Leopards change spots?0
- Arts
- 17th September 2021
In the league of spot-changers, climate charity mandarin Ben has a virtuous smugness and an inability to alter his ways. This particular leopard fancies he’s the hunter, but it rapidly transpires he’s the prey in the world premiere of Alys Metcalf’s tense thriller Leopards, which runs until Saturday September 25 at Kingston’s Rose. It’s a
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