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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EXTENDED UNTIL 26 NOV Our new Thursday guided tours of the archaeological site of The Rose are proving so popular that we are continuing them until the end of November! And they are FREE to Southwark residents and children aged 15-and-under. More info & book: www.trybooking.com/uk/event/118972

The Rose in 1587, 1989 & 2025.
Image credit: © De Montfort University & Roger Clegg / Andrew Fulgoni © Fulgoni Copyrights Ltd / The Rose Theatre Trust.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Rose Playhouse is a small London treasure" A lovely blog post worth your time reading, with an overview of The Rose then and now, the experience of performing in last week's Rose-a-thon, an insight into the Elizabethan explosion in professional acting, and a bunch of links to online resources.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We were delighted to have been involved with this amazing project from @literatureworks.bsky.social, based on a true Elizabethan crime story that was the basis for the – now lost – Rose play, Page of Plymouth by Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker. Please do check out the project's wonderful new website!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ROSE GUIDED TOURS Thursdays, now booking to 29 Oct. Our new tours began last week, and we've been amazed by the response, with most selling out. There are still just a few tickets left for this coming Thursday, 22 Sept. Tours last 45 mins. More info & book: www.trybooking.com/uk/event/118972

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was fun! Luck of the draw gave me Dol Common in The Alchemist and Ghost in Hamlet. A fun bunch in the room. I hope it was a successful day for the Rose! Many thanks to staff and volunteers who organised it.

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Dr Liz Webb @lizwebb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the audience for a fantastic reading of Doctor Faustus @roseplayhouse.bsky.social today. First time there- amazing atmosphere.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come and join in the fun at The Rose this Saturday! Participant tickets for Twelfth Night are now SOLD OUT. And just a handful are left for Faustus and Dream, so book your tickets now!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come and join in the fun at The Rose this Saturday! Participant tickets for Twelfth Night are now SOLD OUT. And just a handful are left for Faustus and Dream, so book your tickets now!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This Saturday, it's our annual play reading fundraiser. This is your chance to act where Shakespeare once performed. Or sit back and watch the fun! Six plays, each cut to 1 hour. Roles drawn from a hat. Come for one or as many as you like. More info & book: www.trybooking.com/uk/event/117804

ROSE-A-THON 2026, Saturday 19 September.

A poster, with the titles of six Elizabethan plays in old fashioned typefaces taken from original quartos arranged in a slight jumble, plus, in modern type, times and ticket prices:
12 noon – Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
1.30 pm – Doctor Faustus.
3.00 pm – A Midsummer Night's Dream.
4.30 pm – Titus Andronicus.
6.00 pm – The Alchemist.
7.30 pm – Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Tickets per play:
watch – £5
take part – £10.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're reopening our doors with new weekly guided tours! Every Thursday, 17 Sept to 29 Oct. They last 45 mins, and start on the hour 10am to 3pm. Southwark residents, & up to 4 children aged 15-and-under go FREE. Booking required. Link in article, or at: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/guided-tours

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One of London’s most important Shakespeare sites is opening up to the public with new tours

The playhouse played a huge part in the thespian’s early career

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Saturday 19 Sept Join us at The Rose for our annual play reading fundraiser! Marlowe, Jonson & Shakespeare 6 plays, each cut to one hour Come for one, or as many as you like £10 take part, £5 watch Roles drawn from a hat, & scripts provided More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Infographic for ROSE-A-THON 2026
Organised by The Friends of The Rose,
with the titles of six Elizabethan plays taken from original quartos, arranged in a slight jumble:
Twelfe Night, or what you will
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
A Midsommer nights dreame
Doctor Faustus
The Alchemist
Titus Andronicus
Plus, in modern red type, time, date and ticket prices:
12 noon - 8.30pm
Saturday 19 Sept
watch - £5
take part - £10

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

timeout.com

One of London’s most important Shakespeare sites is opening up to the public with new tours

The playhouse played a huge part in the thespian’s early career

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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James Wallace @jameswallace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I played the Chorus & so got to speak the opening prologue to start it all off. Anton Lesser & David Bradley were of course both brilliant. I really remember David’s first entrance, coming out of the darkness from the back of the site & wading to the centre of the flooded remains to speak - eerie!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy birthday to Edward Alleyn, The Rose Playhouse's leading actor, and the son-in-law of its owner, Philip Henslowe.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

25 years ago: 'The first performance within the walls of the Rose Theatre since 1605'. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, with Anton Lesser as Faustus & David Bradley as Mephistopheles, was directed by Sonia Ritter for the Lions part theatre company. And so The Rose was reborn as a venue for live theatre.

Black and white theatre poster, with an image of the outline of the archaeological remains of The Rose Playhouse.

It reads:
The Rose Theatre, Southwark
Bankside's First Theatre.
Doctor Faustus
By Christopher Marlowe.
A rehearsed reading by the Lions part
With Anton Lesser as Doctor Faustus
and David Bradley as Mephistopheles.
Directed by Sonia Ritter.
Wednesday 29th August 2001, 7.30pm
Charity Premiere £50.
Thursday 30th August to Saturday 1st September, 7.30pm: £8.00.
The first performance within the walls of the Rose Theatre since 1605.
With logos at the bottom for The Rose, Southwark Playhouse, & the Lions part.

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After this great news please do follow @roseplayhouse.bsky.social and www.roseplayhouse.org.uk for news of events and further progress on this remarkable site, saved for us dramatically (!) in 1989 but still needing our care - and become a Friend with me and many others!

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London Briefly @londonbriefly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Rose Playhouse, built in 1587, was a key early venue for Shakespeare and other playwrights, rediscovered in 1989, now protected and open for guided tours in September-October.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ROSE GUIDED TOURS Thursdays, 17 Sept - 29 Oct We're opening our doors to the public on a regular weekly basis for the first time in 6 years, with our new specialist guided tours of the archaeological remains of The Rose. Tours last 45 mins. More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/guided-tours

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson – they all wrote for The Rose and are back here this September: 12 noon Twelfth Night 1.30 pm Doctor Faustus 3.00 pm A Midsummer Night's Dream 4.30 pm Titus Andronicus 6.00 pm The Alchemist 7.30 pm Hamlet Come for one or as many as you like!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

427 years ago today, Elizabethan theatre manager Philip Henslowe noted that he'd paid 40 shillings to two playwrights to begin work on the tragedy 'Pagge of Plemouth': lostplays.folger.edu/Page_of_Plym...

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Page of Plymouth - Lost Plays Database

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sat 19 Sept, 11.30 noon until 8.30pm ROSE-A-THON 2026 Our annual play-reading fundraiser returns! Take part or just watch as we gallop through 6 plays in one day. Each play is cut to last one hour – roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided. More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This coming Monday – we hope you can join us!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This coming Monday – we hope you can join us!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Monday 22 June @ 6.30pm online MARLOWE'S SUDDENNESS Join Stephen Greenblatt as he talks with Paul Edmondson from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust about Christopher Marlowe and his new book about him, Dark Renaissance. £8 / £5 students & Friends More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Infographic with photos of Professor Stephen Greenblatt and Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson looking at the camera.

It reads:
Researching The Rose, Monday evening online talks.
Marlowe's Suddenness:
A Conversation with Professor Stephen Greenblatt & Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson.
6.30pm (BST) online, Monday 22 June.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

TONIGHT AT 6.30pm Discover how reimagining part of Marlowe’s canon at or around The Curtain creates a longer, richer spatial history for The Rose’s repertory. Can't make it? A catch-up link will be available on request to anyone who buys a ticket but who can’t attend live. Please book by 6.15pm.

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Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Looking forward to wandering around the Curtain playhouse with Chrisopher Marlowe and co later today!

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This talk, looking at Marlowe and his work from a new perspective, will be fascinating – hope you can join us! Can't make it on the day? A catch-up link will be made available upon request to anyone who buys a ticket for the talk but who can’t attend live.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This coming Monday...

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Monday 11 May @ 6.30pm online BEFORE THE ROSE: MARLOWE AT THE CURTAIN Dr Callan Davies takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside and Christopher Marlowe is living up in Shoreditch, close by to The Curtain Playhouse. £8 / £5 www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Infographic, with a photo of Dr Callan Davies.
It reads:
Researching The Rose, Monday evening online talks.
Dr Callan Davies,
Before The Rose: Marlowe at The Curtain.
6.30pm (BST) online, Monday 11 May.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We're in this! (As well as lots of other fine folk...) THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Written & presented by Professor Jerry Brotton On BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds – ten 14 minute episodes, releasing 20 April - 1 May, at 9.45pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v6z8

Promotional BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds flyer for "The Essay: The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe", written and presented by Professor Jerry Brotton.
Mon-Fri at 21.45, Radio 3. 20th April – 1st May.
Produced by Melissa FitzGerald.
Christopher Marlowe read by Justice Ritchie.
Other voices read by Tonderai Munyevu.
The image shows Professor Brotton standing with his arms folded, looking up at a Tudor portrait of a man with arms folded.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Mon 27 April @ 6.30pm online Join Professor Tiffany Stern to discover why theatrical broadsheet ballads were sold outside The Rose, who wrote them, printed them & sung them, and why & how they were connected with the plays performed there £5 / £8 More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Infographic, with a photo of Tiffany Stern smiling.
It reads:
Researching The Rose
Monday evening online talks.
Professor Tiffany Stern,
Ballads as Theatre 'Merch' in Shakespeare's London.
6.30pm (BST) online,
Monday 27 April.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Tonight at 6.30pm (1.30pm EST) Jesse Berger in conversation, talking about Red Bull Theater, The Rose, and his current production of Titus Andronicus, nominated for a Lortel award for Outstanding Revival, and playing in New York until 3 May. Can't make it? Buy a ticket and ask for a catch-up link.

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This coming Monday, join us online to hear Jesse Berger in conversation. He'll talk about his new production of Titus Andronicus, currently playing to rave reviews in New York, and which has just received a Lucille Lortel award nomination for Outstanding Revival and extended its run to 3 May.

Flyer for Red Bull's current production of Titus Andronicus, with photos of its director, Jesse Berger, and Ben Prusiner from The Rose Playhouse

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