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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.

As students and graduates descend on Edinburgh, here's a guide to Rose Bruford College related productions throughout the 2018 Fringe Festival. 

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.

The Rose Bruford College summer programme of short courses and professional masterclasses provide an intensive summer of learning whatever your level of experience. All courses are taught in the specialist facilities of our green campus is Sidcup, South East London.

MA/MFA International Theatre Practice and Performance. A New Global three-year postgraduate course in London, USA, & Moscow. 

New Writing Season 2018

For the second consecutive year, our New Writing Season of plays will be performed at Ugly Duck in Tanner Street, London from 13-16 June.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance has been ranked as the top drama school in the world and one of only two creative arts specialist higher education institutions in the top 25 globally ranked universities for student mobility. 

Thursday 17 May 2018 saw the official release of Brecht: A Practical Handbook a new book by BA (Hons) Acting Programme Director David Zoob. 

Pupils from Trinity School in Belvedere had the unique opportunity to light the National Theatre as part of their prize for winning Junior Ready Steady Light 2018.

The College was saddened to learn of the death on 25 March 2018 of James Dodding, who had very longstanding connections with the institution both as a student, teacher and board member, and with Rose Bruford herself. 

A team of Rose Bruford College BA (Hons) Lighting Design students won two of the three awards at The Society of Light and Lighting’s (SLL) national lighting design competition. 

The Hypocrite cast members Jake Setters and Melissa Knighton took a break from rehearsals to be interviewed live on national radio on Monday 5 March 2018.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance has been ranked as the safest institution in the university sector in London for the second consecutive year. 

Our latest BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts spotlight is on 2012 graduate Rosanna Sloan. 

Stage Managers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland gathered at Rose Bruford College, from the 16 July to 21 July, for a week-long symposium.

Rose Bruford College has been awarded a Gold award in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), which was introduced by the Government to recognise and reward excellent teaching in UK higher education providers.

See the next generation of actors and actor musicians perform in three new plays in association with Tonic Theatre, Chaskis Theatre & Action To The Word.

In an age of extremes, when the stakes seem impossibly high, the gap between winners and losers grows ever wider. And what’s wrong with that? Martin Crimp’s satire of contemporary obsessions is given a sinister new twist in this multi-media production integrating live music, video projection and a can-do attitude.

Following on from December’s workshops, Directing’s Quantum Moment, Rose Bruford College is please to launch two further opportunities to develop your directing skills.

On Us: A Celebration of Womanhood created by Christopher Parks & Company

A theatre company formed by students on the College’s BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts programme has recently returned from a successful trip to Sweden where they performed their debut production The Crossing Place at the prestigious Västmanlands Teater in Västerås.

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.

Our Autumn Season of classic plays, performed by students on our BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship programmes, concludes with The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, in a version by Martin Crimp

Book now for our free workshop for those interested in applying for our BA (Hons) Creative Lighting Control and BA (Hons) Lighting Design programmes.

World-renowned illustrator Sir Quentin Blake joined a list of distinguished theatre professionals including Rosalie Craig, Jane ‘The Hat’ Smith, Murray Melvin and Sheila Reid to be conferred as Fellows and Honorary Fellows of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of graduate Will Forster on Wednesday 10 August.

A host of industry guests, including Oscar winner and Honorary Fellow Jenny Beavan, attended the 2016 Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance New Theatre Contemporaries Graduate Exhibition and New Writing Season, at the prestigious Bargehouse on London’s South Bank from the 8-12 June 2016.

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Directed by Nir Paldi & George Mann

We are delighted to collaborate again with multi-award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum in the creation of an entirely new piece of work.

Rose Bruford College graduates have been at the heart of BBC programmes celebrating inspirational figures in black Theatre.

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.

BA (Hons) American Theatre Arts presents: Fefu & Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

Our London Season continues with The Hypocrite by Richard Bean.