Rose Theatre, Kingston
The theatre in 2008
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| Address | 24-26 High Street |
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| Location | Kingston upon Thames, Greater London |
| Coordinates | 51°24′31″N 0°18′27″W / 51.4086°N 0.3075°WCoordinates: 51°24′31″N 0°18′27″W / 51.4086°N 0.3075°W |
| Public transit | Kingston |
| Owner | Kingston Theatre Trust |
| Type | Theatre |
| Capacity | 899 |
| Opened | 16 January 2008 |
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The Rose Theatre, Kingston is a theatre on Kingston High Street in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The theatre seats 899 around a wide, thrust stage.
It officially opened on 16 January 2008 with Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, with Sir Peter Hall directing. Hall had also directed an 'in the raw' production of As You Like It within the shell of the uncompleted building in December 2004.
The theatre's layout is based on that of the Rose Theatre in London, an Elizabethan theatre that staged the plays of Christopher Marlowe and early plays by Shakespeare. It features a shallow thrust stage. Unlike the original Rose, it makes the Elizabethan design more comfortable by adding a roof and modern seats, rather like the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The front rows of the stall have no seats; patrons bring cushions instead.
The Rose was a project supported by Peter Hall and broadcaster David Jacobs CBE, who served as chairman of the Kingston Theatre Trust.
The construction was undertaken with £5m (of the £11m construction cost) support from the local council, involvement from Kingston University, Peter Hall, and the Friends of Kingston Theatre. The shell of the building was provided to the Trust for free by St George plc as one of the concessions for the construction of Charter Quay, a development on the bank of the Thames.
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