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The Rose Playhouse
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Bankside's first theatre Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989 Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity www.roseplayhouse.org.uk Rose Theatre Trust 56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
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Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · 1d
This evening, join us online for a talk that will serve as an introduction to the 'Page of Plymouth' project, exploring the lost domestic tragedy of the same name.

We're looking forward to Beth and Tim's readings, delving into the true crimes that inspired the lost play by Jonson and Dekker.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 1d
6.30pm TONIGHT

Join Helen Chaloner & David Prescott from @literatureworks.bsky.social as they introduce the new Page of Plymouth project.

Actors Beth Park & Tim Frances will be there to read extracts from pamphlets & ballads about the murder that Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker turned into a Rose play.
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Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · 1d
This will be the first of five talks presented in partnership with @roseplayhouse.bsky.social to look forward to, with more announced soon. Book now via The Rose Playhouse: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 1d
6.30pm TONIGHT

Join Helen Chaloner & David Prescott from @literatureworks.bsky.social as they introduce the new Page of Plymouth project.

Actors Beth Park & Tim Frances will be there to read extracts from pamphlets & ballads about the murder that Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker turned into a Rose play.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3d
Our new season of online talks starts this Monday, 13 Oct

Discover the lost domestic tragedy Page of Plymouth, & the new @literatureworks.bsky.social project centred on it, looking at theatre, culture & narratives of ordinary lives in Plymouth then & now

More info & book: bit.ly/3WvdoyH

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Infographic for the online talk, called 'Page of Plymouth: Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play', with the time and date – 6.30pm 13 Oct – and photos of Helen Chaloner and David Prescott, the two speakers.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3d
You can find out more about all these talks as well as our other onsite events on our new website:

www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Every time you buy a ticket, you help to support us!
Top of the home page of the website for The Rose Playhouse, with woodcut figures, taken from the title-pages of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays and pamphlets, used as icons to click on to take visitors to different pages.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3d
Monday 24 Nov @ 6.30pm

JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE

Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, pieces together the biography of Philip Henslowe's step-daughter, Joan, wife of the actor Edward Alleyn, and a pivotal figure in the history of The Rose

More info & book: bit.ly/4q00l69
Infographic for the talk, giving the date & time, with photo of Calista Lucy.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3d
Monday Nov 10 @ 7.30pm

PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES

Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social, President of the Marlowe Society of America, for a ramble around the inns & taverns of early modern London, exploring their role in playhouse culture.

More info & book: bit.ly/4nUquBN
Infographic for the talk, with the time and date, and a photo of Laurie Johnson.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3d
Monday Oct 27 @ 6.30pm online

INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE

Join Prof. Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.

More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
Infographic for the talk, with the time and date, and a photo of Grace Ioppolo
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 3d
Our new season of online talks starts this Monday, 13 Oct

Discover the lost domestic tragedy Page of Plymouth, & the new @literatureworks.bsky.social project centred on it, looking at theatre, culture & narratives of ordinary lives in Plymouth then & now

More info & book: bit.ly/3WvdoyH

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Infographic for the online talk, called 'Page of Plymouth: Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play', with the time and date – 6.30pm 13 Oct – and photos of Helen Chaloner and David Prescott, the two speakers.
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Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social · 6d
This coming Monday 👇🏻

Book your tickets for this first online talk and learn all about the lost play 'Page of Plymouth' and the exciting city-wide project ahead of us.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 14d
Mon 13 Oct @ 6.30pm online

PAGE OF PLYMOUTH
Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play

An introduction to the lost 1599 domestic tragedy about the murder of goldsmith George Page by his young wife, & the new project centred on it looking at Plymouth lives then & now.

www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, reading: Researching The Rose, Monday evening online talks. Helen Chaloner & David Prescott – Page of Plymouth: Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play. 6.30-7.30pm, 13 October 2025. Presented in conjunction with Literature Works. On right are headshot photographs of the two speakers side by side.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 14d
Mon 13 Oct @ 6.30pm online

PAGE OF PLYMOUTH
Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play

An introduction to the lost 1599 domestic tragedy about the murder of goldsmith George Page by his young wife, & the new project centred on it looking at Plymouth lives then & now.

www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, reading: Researching The Rose, Monday evening online talks. Helen Chaloner & David Prescott – Page of Plymouth: Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play. 6.30-7.30pm, 13 October 2025. Presented in conjunction with Literature Works. On right are headshot photographs of the two speakers side by side.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 14d
This is the first of five Rose talks on Page of Plymouth, and will be presented by David Prescott, Producer & Dramaturg, alongside Helen Chaloner, CEO of @literatureworks.bsky.social

The talk will include readings from contemporary pamphlets about the murder, and extracts of Jonson's poetry.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 14d
This is the first of five Rose talks on Page of Plymouth, and will be presented by David Prescott, Producer & Dramaturg, alongside Helen Chaloner, CEO of @literatureworks.bsky.social

The talk will include readings from contemporary pamphlets about the murder, and extracts of Jonson's poetry.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 14d
Mon 13 Oct @ 6.30pm online

PAGE OF PLYMOUTH
Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play

An introduction to the lost 1599 domestic tragedy about the murder of goldsmith George Page by his young wife, & the new project centred on it looking at Plymouth lives then & now.

www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, reading: Researching The Rose, Monday evening online talks. Helen Chaloner & David Prescott – Page of Plymouth: Ben Jonson & Thomas Dekker's Lost Play. 6.30-7.30pm, 13 October 2025. Presented in conjunction with Literature Works. On right are headshot photographs of the two speakers side by side.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 27d
This Saturday...

This is your chance to perform on the site of the theatre for which Marlowe wrote his mighty lines and where Shakespeare himself trod the boards.

Or you can just watch the fun!

Pick one play or as many as you like, but whatever you do, please join us and help support The Rose.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Sep 2
Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON

Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!

Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.

Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.

More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, with date, times & ticket prices (per play: £10 to take part, £5 to watch) in modern red type, together with a jumble of the titles in old fashioned black type taken from the original printings of the six plays in the Readathon: Twelfth Night, The Alchemist, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, The Massacre at Paris, and The Comedy of Errors.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 27d
This Saturday...

This is your chance to perform on the site of the theatre for which Marlowe wrote his mighty lines and where Shakespeare himself trod the boards.

Or you can just watch the fun!

Pick one play or as many as you like, but whatever you do, please join us and help support The Rose.
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Sep 2
Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON

Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!

Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.

Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.

More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, with date, times & ticket prices (per play: £10 to take part, £5 to watch) in modern red type, together with a jumble of the titles in old fashioned black type taken from the original printings of the six plays in the Readathon: Twelfth Night, The Alchemist, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, The Massacre at Paris, and The Comedy of Errors.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Sep 2
Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON

Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!

Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.

Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.

More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, with date, times & ticket prices (per play: £10 to take part, £5 to watch) in modern red type, together with a jumble of the titles in old fashioned black type taken from the original printings of the six plays in the Readathon: Twelfth Night, The Alchemist, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, The Massacre at Paris, and The Comedy of Errors.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Sep 2
Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON

Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!

Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.

Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.

More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
Infographic, with date, times & ticket prices (per play: £10 to take part, £5 to watch) in modern red type, together with a jumble of the titles in old fashioned black type taken from the original printings of the six plays in the Readathon: Twelfth Night, The Alchemist, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, The Massacre at Paris, and The Comedy of Errors.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 28
This Saturday is our last August Open day!

Our new free digital guide also has a 75 min Sonic Trail that you can download to your phone – an immersive audio walking tour starting and ending at The Rose, allowing you to explore the local area while listening to the sounds of Elizabethan London.
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
An infographic with details of our August Summer Holiday Openings, between 12 noon and 4pm on Fri 8th & 9th, Fri 15th & 16th, Fri 22nd, and Sat 30th. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and teenagers, with a £20 ticket for a family of four. Accompanied kids 12 years and under go FREE. In the top left corner the usual round red Rose logo is in the middle of a seventeenth century engraving of the sun, with black wavey sun rays surrounding it. The words 'August Summer Holiday Openings' are in different style Elizabethan print fonts, with the letters all at slightly different angles to each other and not laid out in straight lines – it looks a little like the letters have been strung on holiday bunting and are waving in the summer breeze...
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 28
This Saturday is our last August Open day!

Our new free digital guide also has a 75 min Sonic Trail that you can download to your phone – an immersive audio walking tour starting and ending at The Rose, allowing you to explore the local area while listening to the sounds of Elizabethan London.
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
An infographic with details of our August Summer Holiday Openings, between 12 noon and 4pm on Fri 8th & 9th, Fri 15th & 16th, Fri 22nd, and Sat 30th. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and teenagers, with a £20 ticket for a family of four. Accompanied kids 12 years and under go FREE. In the top left corner the usual round red Rose logo is in the middle of a seventeenth century engraving of the sun, with black wavey sun rays surrounding it. The words 'August Summer Holiday Openings' are in different style Elizabethan print fonts, with the letters all at slightly different angles to each other and not laid out in straight lines – it looks a little like the letters have been strung on holiday bunting and are waving in the summer breeze...
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 20
We're opening our doors again this Friday, with a new free digital guide you can download and use.

You can also use it to walk along our new Sonic Trail – a 75 min immersive audio tour that lets you explore the surrounding area while learning about the soundscapes of Elizabethan London!
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
An infographic with details of our August Summer Holiday Openings, between 12 noon and 4pm on Fri 8th & 9th, Fri 15th & 16th, Fri 22nd, and Sat 30th. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and teenagers, with a £20 ticket for a family of four. Accompanied kids 12 years and under go FREE. In the top left corner the usual round red Rose logo is in the middle of a seventeenth century engraving of the sun, with black wavey sun rays surrounding it. The words 'August Summer Holiday Openings' are in different style Elizabethan print fonts, with the letters all at slightly different angles to each other and not laid out in straight lines – it looks a little like the letters have been strung on holiday bunting and are waving in the summer breeze...
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 20
We're opening our doors again this Friday, with a new free digital guide you can download and use.

You can also use it to walk along our new Sonic Trail – a 75 min immersive audio tour that lets you explore the surrounding area while learning about the soundscapes of Elizabethan London!
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
An infographic with details of our August Summer Holiday Openings, between 12 noon and 4pm on Fri 8th & 9th, Fri 15th & 16th, Fri 22nd, and Sat 30th. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and teenagers, with a £20 ticket for a family of four. Accompanied kids 12 years and under go FREE. In the top left corner the usual round red Rose logo is in the middle of a seventeenth century engraving of the sun, with black wavey sun rays surrounding it. The words 'August Summer Holiday Openings' are in different style Elizabethan print fonts, with the letters all at slightly different angles to each other and not laid out in straight lines – it looks a little like the letters have been strung on holiday bunting and are waving in the summer breeze...
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · Aug 15
Go visit the Rose!
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 13
We're opening our doors again this Friday & Saturday, with a new free digital guide you can download and use.

You can also use it to walk along our new Sonic Trail – a 75 min immersive audio tour that lets you explore the surrounding area while learning about the soundscapes of Elizabethan London!
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 13
We're opening our doors again this Friday & Saturday, with a new free digital guide you can download and use.

You can also use it to walk along our new Sonic Trail – a 75 min immersive audio tour that lets you explore the surrounding area while learning about the soundscapes of Elizabethan London!
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
An infographic with details of our August Summer Holiday Openings, between 12 noon and 4pm on Fri 8th & 9th, Fri 15th & 16th, Fri 22nd, and Sat 30th. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and teenagers, with a £20 ticket for a family of four. Accompanied kids 12 years and under go FREE. In the top left corner the usual round red Rose logo is in the middle of a seventeenth century engraving of the sun, with black wavey sun rays surrounding it. The words 'August Summer Holiday Openings' are in different style Elizabethan print fonts, with the letters all at slightly different angles to each other and not laid out in straight lines – it looks a little like the letters have been strung on holiday bunting and are waving in the summer breeze...
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 13
We're opening our doors again this Friday & Saturday, with a new free digital guide you can download and use.

You can also use it to walk along our new Sonic Trail – a 75 min immersive audio tour that lets you explore the surrounding area while learning about the soundscapes of Elizabethan London!
roseplayhouse.bsky.social
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 7
We're open on selected days this August, so why not see the archaeological remains of Bankside's first theatre?

£6 / £20 family of 4
Kids 12yrs & under go FREE

No need to book – just pay on the door

+ we have a new free digital guide you can use!

Find out more www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
An infographic with details of our August Summer Holiday Openings, between 12 noon and 4pm on Fri 8th & 9th, Fri 15th & 16th, Fri 22nd, and Sat 30th. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and teenagers, with a £20 ticket for a family of four. Accompanied kids 12 years and under go FREE. In the top left corner the usual round red Rose logo is in the middle of a seventeenth century engraving of the sun, with black wavey sun rays surrounding it. The words 'August Summer Holiday Openings' are in different style Elizabethan print fonts, with the letters all at slightly different angles to each other and not laid out in straight lines – it looks a little like the letters have been strung on holiday bunting and are waving in the summer breeze...
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