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  • Spellbinding drama at the Rose

    Spellbinding drama at the Rose0

    • 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

    Ingenious show enthrals0

    • 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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  • A night of ‘awesome’ Austen

    A night of ‘awesome’ Austen0

    Were Jane Austen to have sat through the Rose Theatre’s stage adaptation of her novel Persuasion she would, artistic director Chris Haydon suggests, have thought it “awesome”. She’d certainly have been bemused by signs outside the auditorium warning of strong language; probably racking her brain to recall any effing or blinding. Yet ‘awesome’ is an

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