What’s on
Join us for talks, play readings, open days, costume demonstrations, guided walks, and more…
Some events are online, some take place on the site of The Rose Playhouse itself.
We are yet to open on a daily basis, but will do so just as soon as we can.
Just by buying a ticket you are helping to support our mission, so please do come along!
On next:
ONLINE TALK
Monday 23 March
7.30pm (GMT) online
LOST PLAYS AND THE ROSE
Professor David McInnis
University of Melbourne
The vast majority of plays once performed at The Rose Playhouse are now lost, but what can they still reveal about the business of Elizabethan play-making and the audiences who watched them?
The Admiral's Men, The Rose’s leading acting company, seem to have had approximately 235 plays in their repertory between the years 1594 and 1603, according to the business records of The Rose’s owner, Philip Henslowe – yet just 24 of these have survived to the present day.
The excavations of playhouse foundations by archaeologists has yielded exciting new insights into playing and playgoing, and likewise the excavation of lost plays – their narratives, subject matter, genre, and other features besides the actual playtexts themselves – can help us understand and appreciate playhouse activity from another angle.
Join Professor David McInnes, editor of the Lost Plays Database, to discover how plays become lost and how theatre historians can work with their absence productively, as he explores a handful of particularly tantalising lost plays from The Rose’s repertoire.
PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH LITERATURE WORKS AND THE PAGE OF PLYMOUTH PROJECT
Literature Works is a charity and an Arts Council England National Portfolio organisation in Southwest England.
The Page of Plymouth project is centred on the lost play by Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker (performed at The Rose in 1599), and explores stories about gender, justice and ordinary lives in Plymouth both then and now.
Please note the later than usual start time of 7.30pm
Tickets:
£8 / £5 students & Friends
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The Rose Sonic Trail: A Playgoer’s Journey
Step into the shoes of an Elizabethan playgoer with this immersive 75 minute audio walk that begins and ends at The Rose.
It is 1594, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is playing at The Rose. Explore the local area with one of the actors, Jonathan Singer, as your guide, and encounter the stories, sounds, and characters of Philip Henslowe’s London.
You may be surprised by what you hear!
