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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
READ MOREFancy 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
READ MOREOscar 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
READ MOREThere’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 –
READ MORENicholas Woodeson is perfectly cast as the future Pope Francis in The Two Popes at the Rose All pictures: Manuel Harlan Warning: incense. An unlikely audience caution ahead of a play, but as the curtains part on Anthony McCarten’s The Two Popes at Kingston’s Rose, aromatic smoke does permeate the auditorium. It’s a sumptuous, absorbing
READ MOREKingston’s Rose Theatre is cementing its reputation for bold, energetic and innovative drama with its latest stage show, A Monster Calls, which tackles a string of challenging issues in an accomplished way. The production is on a grand tour, but anyone who catches it at the riverside theatre in the High Street is likely to
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