Welcome to the Rose
Welcome to the Rose Theatre, Kingston
The autumn season at the Rose is now on sale, which includes a seven week residency from Theatre Royal Bath presenting the Peter Hall Company productions of The Portrait of a Lady, A Doll's House and Born in the Gardens.
We are also delighted to be presenting the first Rose Theatre Production from 21 October to 15 November, which will be Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Hall, and with Peter Bowles.
Full details and online booking available by clicking the 'What's On' link above.
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Featured Shows
A Doll's House
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Peter Hall
Nora thought she had the perfect life until a ghost from the past returns. Forced to confront reality, she recognises that she is little more than her husband's plaything, trapped by convention within a suffocating marriage...
Blackmail and innocence, love and hypocrisy, honour and betrayal collide in one of the most groundbreaking
and celebrated plays in theatre history. In 1879, Ibsen's A Doll's House stunned the world and provoked outrage. One critic compared it to the "dropping of a bomb into contemporary life"
Starring Catherine McCormack, Finbar Lynch, Christopher Ravenscroft, Anthony Howell, Vivien Keene & Susie Trayling.
Catherine McCormack's numerous major films include Braveheart, The Land Girls, Dangerous Beauty, Spy Game, The Moon and the Stars and 28 Weeks Later. Her stage roles include All My Sons, for which she was nominated in the 2001 Olivier Awards, Honour and Dinner, all at the National Theatre and The 39 Steps in the West End and on Broadway.
Finbar Lynch's stage roles include playing Puck in the RSC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and most recently Pinter's The Hothouse, a National production at the National Theatre, Edmund in King Lear and Enobarbus in Anthony and Cleopatra, also at the National Theatre. He received a Tony award nomination on Broadway for the National Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams's Not About Nightingales.
Christopher Ravenscroft's many roles for the RSC include Cassius in Julius Caesar and Mountjoy in Henry V - a role he reprised in Kenneth Branagh's film version. On television he is best known for The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
Post performance talk: Tuesday 16 September
STAGETEXT Captioned performance: 19 September 7.30pm
Audio described performance: 20 September 2.30pm. Touch tour at 1pm.
Suitable for all ages.
The Portrait of a Lady
By Henry James
Directed by Peter Hall
Henry James' nineteenth century masterpiece is one of the wonders of world literature. Set in London, Rome and Florence, The Portrait of a Lady tells the story of Isabel Archer, a beautiful, young American heiress, who travels to Europe on a voyage of self-discovery. She is accompanied by the delightful Madam Merle who seems to have many friends, but no past.
Having turned down an English Lord and wealthy American industrialist, Isabel marries Gilbert Osmond, a man of exquisite taste and sensibility, who claims to care nothing for worldly possessions. As Gilbert and Madam Merle reveal their true faces, however, Isabel has to confront her future alone...
Cast:
Isabel Archer Catherine McCormack
Gilbert Osmond Finbar Lynch
Lord Warburton Dan Fredenburgh
Madame Merle Niamh Cusack
Ralph Touchett Anthony Howell
Mrs Touchett Jean Marsh
Daniel Touchett Christopher Ravenscroft
Caspar Goodwood Oliver Chris
Henrietta Stackpole Susie Trayling
Countess Gemini Flaminia Clinque
Pansy Osmond Laura Powe
Roman Matron Vivien Keen
Ned Rosier Charlie Anson
Miss Molyneux Nelly Harker
Guide/Butler Malcolm James
Maid Sophie Scott
Waiter Andrew Bloomer
Post performance talk: Tuesday 2 September
Audio described performance: 6 September 2.30pm. Touch tour at 1pm.
Suitable for all ages.