Rose Bruford College | News & Events

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A performance by final year BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship students from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance has raised over £550 for the Mayor of Bexley’s charity appeal.

Our 2018 Autumn Season of classic plays will run from 30 October to 24 November in The Rose Theatre.

Performed by final year students on our BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship programmes, in collaboration with the School of Design, Management and Technical Arts, it's the ideal opportunity to see the next generation of performers, designers and technicians before they embark on their careers.

Second year BA (Hons) Lighting Design Student, Espen Karlsen has returned to Rose Bruford College following a successful industry placement at Hull City of Culture working on the Where Do We Go From Here? art installation by the internationally renowned Jason Bruges Studio. 

Guest speakers from a range of prestigious opera companies will present papers on Children’s Opera this Autumn as part of the seventh biennial international “Music On Stage” conference.

On Sunday 1 July 2018, 2012 Rose Bruford College BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts graduate Nanna Gunnars will host the launch of the inaugural Reykjavik Fringe Festival, a festival she has founded to provide opportunities for Icelandic and International artists to showcase their work.

Prospective applicants interested in the Access to Higher Education Diploma in Production Arts can get a taste for the course by booking onto our free workshop on Saturday 16 June.  

New Writing Season 2018

Join final year students Ugly Duck in Tanner Street for Beginners' Call, the 2018 Graduate Exhibition by the School of Design, Management and Technical Arts , featuring scene, costume, lighting and sound designs and other individual pieces of work by over 100 new graduates, showing the diverse talent, creativity and skills of a new generation of theatre artists.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance is delighted to announce the awarding of their 2018 The Stage Scholarship to Yadel Gebeyehu. 

Final year BA (Hons) Creative Lighting Control (CLC) student, Ash Holdon, has been awarded a bursary by leading stage electrical company SLX. 

A promenade production in Sidcup Manor House written and directed by Steven Dykes. 

Our latest BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts spotlight is on 2007 graduate and Freelance Theatre Practitioner Kate Bradnam. 

Our latest spotlight is on film and TV actor James Eeles who graduated for BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts in 2003. 

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance are building on their reputation as world leaders in the training of actor-musicians by launching a new Actor-Musicianship* MA/MFA programme from October 2018. 

Steven Dykes, Programme Director for American Theatre Arts, spent the summer in New York performing with theatre company PTP/NYC, his fourth season with the critically acclaimed ensemble.

Professor Michael Earley, who has served as Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance for the past eight-and-a-half years, retired on 15 September 2017.

Rose Bruford College were pleased to host a conference on Mental Health and Well being for Performing Arts Colleges on June 30th...

2012 Graduate and Milkshake presenter Olivia Birchenough is the latest in our series of BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts alumni profiles.

Award winning actress and BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts graduate Sophia Eleni talks about life after Rose Bruford.

It’s full swing in the Australian festival season and four BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts (ETA) graduates have been strutting their stuff in Melbourne, Perth and now Adelaide.

Rose Bruford College is now accepting applications for the Jubilee Fund 2017. This year the fund will be used to subsidise graduate company performances in our managed space within the Summerhall complex in Edinburgh throughout the Edinburgh Fringe 2017.

BA (Hons) Lighting Design students Abi Waller and Jessica Sanders have provided a lighting installation for Bexley council’s Looked After Children Awards. 

Rose Bruford College’s Thomas JM Wilson (module/year co-ordinator European Theatre Arts), has written the first major publication on the history and work of pioneering British circus company Gandini Juggling.

An adaptation of Franz Kafka’a The Trial, directed by BA (Hons) Theatre Studies student Craig Sanders, has won two awards at the Manchester Fringe Festival.

Over 100 of the world’s leading Stanislavski scholars gathered at the home of the Stanislavski Centre at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance recently for a three day international symposium.

Secessionville is an epic play with music and video projection, following the lives of twenty citizens as they navigate the impact of 'Long Division' on their country.

Our London Season concludes with Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman

Our London Season kicks off with Dogville, adapted from the celebrated crime drama by controversial screenwriter Lars von Trier.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance Chair of Governors, Monisha Shah, has been appointed to the Board of new universities’ regulator, The Office for Students (OfS).

European Theatre Arts Winter Season

Our Autumn Season of classic plays, performed by students on our BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship programmes, concludes with The Mandate by Nikolai Erdman translated by Declan Donnellan.
 

Our 2017 Autumn Season of classic plays will run from 31 October to 25 November in The Rose Theatre.