Rose Theatre Kingston

Dynamic show tailored to youth 0
- Arts
- 9th March 2025
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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Party time at the Rose 0
- Arts, News
- 7th November 2024
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 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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Coronation appetiser 0
- Arts
- 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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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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Chance for your film to have its debut on the big screen 0
- Arts, News
- 22nd March 2021
Budding young filmmakers have the opportunity to show their work at a new Kingston-based film festival. But get going as your applications need to be in this Friday. The young creatives will have a chance to showcase their work to an audience on the big screen in front of an industry panel at the Rose
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