Director of the CSBR, Consultant in cyber security, resilience, health and tech. Recovering politician. Chair of the Rose Theatre Trust Advisory Council.
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ALT Infographic with the event's title, date, time and ticket prices in large modern white text, superimposed on the top-half of the famous 1596 portrait of Joan Alleyn, the step-daughter of The Rose's owner Philip Henslowe, and the wife of its leading actor Edward Alleyn, that hangs in Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. In the painting, she wears a tall broad-brimmed black hat with a black hatband, that is tied onto her head with black ribbon over the white linen coif that covers most of her hair. Around her neck she wears a very large cream-coloured ruff trimmed with lace. She wears a black gown, with very large shoulders that point upwards, which is open to show a cream stomacher underneath, with delicate floral blackwork embroidery. She stands against a plain background, has fair hair, pale skin and red lips, and looks serious as she displays her status through the fashionable and expensive clothing that she wears.
ALT A photograph of the archaeological remains of The Rose Playhouse, currently preserved underwater in a very wide and tall basement underneath an office block, looking from the south to the north, with illuminated rope lights in red outlining the position of the inner and outer walls of the seating galleries that ring the yard, with two ropes of blue lights on the north side of the yard, marking the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back a few feet when The Rose was expanded in 1592/3. The modern day raised viewing platform is just visible at the top right of the photograph. Light from the viewing platform is reflected on the surface of the water. Photo taken 17 July 2025 by Pepe Pryke.
ALT A photograph of the archaeological remains of The Rose Playhouse, currently preserved underwater in a very wide and tall basement underneath an office block, looking down from the modern day viewing platform across the flooded space east to west. Illuminated rope lights in red just underneath the surface of the water outline the position of the inner and outer walls of the seating galleries that ring the yard. Immediately in front of the viewer are two nearly-parallel ropes of blue lights marking the front of the trapezoid-shaped stage in 1587, when the playhouse was first built, and then pushed back a few feet further north (to the viewer's right) when The Rose was expanded in 1592/3. Photo taken 17 July 2025 by Peter Jolly.
