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  • Dynamic show tailored to youth

    Dynamic show tailored to youth0

    If ever a show was devised to persuade millennials and Gen Z that theatre isn’t for fuddy-duddies, The House Party – at Kingston’s Rose until March 22 – is it. Brash, bold and boisterous, Laura Lomas’s play (go for a wee beforehand, it runs without an interval for 1hr 40mins) is billed as a reworking

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  • Fresh and vigorous, Robin Hood comes to town

    Fresh and vigorous, Robin Hood comes to town0

    The Christmas show at Kingston’s Rose is another lively musical powered by the youthful vigour of the theatre’s junior thesps. Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist, which runs until Jan 5, is an original story by Chris Bush, unencumbered by the usual panto versions of the folklore tale set in Sherwood Forest. The main protagonists walk

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  • Party time at the Rose

    Party time at the Rose0

    Mike Leigh’s feast of agonising drunken smalltalk, Abigail’s Party, is back on stage at Kingston’s Rose, with Laura Rogers playing the deliciously excruciating hostess Beverley – the part that Alison Steadman made her own in the beloved TV version. The suburban satire is so cemented in the collective conscience from that masterful 1977 BBC adaption

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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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  • Glass half full

    Glass half full0

    An absorbing revival of Tennessee Williams’ intense family drama The Glass Menagerie offers some strong performances as director Atri Banerjee tries to modernise a dated story. Kingston’s Rose is the venue (until May 4) of this minimalist touring production which builds in tension and focus through a powerful second half to a curiously flat ending.

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  • Macbeth’s gory reimagining

    Macbeth’s gory reimagining0

    Perplexingly stark, but mesmerizingly watchable, Zinnie Harris’s reworking of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Macbeth (An Undoing), at Kingston’s Rose (until Mar 23) puts the focus on Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper) in a gory exploration of guilt, madness and power shifts. By the end the cast are using mops and buckets to scrub blood from the stage,

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