Rose

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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A cracking good whodunnit 0
- Arts, News
- 22nd February 2023
You can create all the bold, innovative modern theatre you like, but there’s something reassuringly alluring about the murder mystery queen Agatha Christie’s whodunnits… and The Mirror Crack’d, on at Kingston’s Rose this week, ticks all the boxes. With its clever digs at Britain’s social class inequality, and its portrayal of a slow-witted PC Plod
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Teen drama revives 0
- Arts
- 3rd February 2023
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
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Xmas Carol is a feelgood fillip 0
- Arts, News
- 9th December 2022
Fancy 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
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Farce feels newly minted 0
- Arts
- 5th November 2022
Oscar 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
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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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