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Dateline: 19th September, 2007
First Residency at the Rose Since C17 TheATRE hE, mME, mm will be the first resident theatre company at the Rose Theatre in Bankside since the seventeenth century whe it begins a season of plays from Tuesday 23rd October to Saturday 15th December. The season will include original work, written with this unique space in mind, and a new adaptation of Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris by writer and broadcaster, Jeff Thomson.
Artistic Director, Mike Miller, commented, "Christopher Marlowe was the bad-boy of Tudor play-making. He was allegedly murdered in Deptford after a brawl but the exact nature of his disappearance is hotly disputed. Did he flee abroad or as some argue, become the victim of a State assassination? Whatever his fate his work was both popular and subversive and the events planned for the Rose Theatre Site Residency, although modest, will attempt to capture its tradition for both popular and radical play-making." The Rose Theatre Trust, supported by a dedicated team of volunteers, have nurtured what remains of the Rose Theatre since 1989 when the original footings were discovered. The Rose was Bankside’s first theatre and home to the work of both Marlowe and Shakespeare. A huge campaign of petition and protest was necessary to prevent its entire destruction.
The subsequent excavation of this unique site assisted archaeologists and academics to further evaluate the nature of theatre in Tudor London and has informed aspects of the newly constructed Shakespeare's Globe.
The Rose Theatre Trust has hosted around fifty performances on the site since it was unearthed, continuing in part to the same ideal of the great Elizabethan playhouse it once was. The productions will be:
Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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