Autumn/winter at Ormskirk’s Rose Theatre

Ormskirk-based Rose Theatre has announced its autumn-winter season featuring a packed schedule of shows.

The Rose, part of Edge Hill University, opens with a new play by Siobhán Nicholas called Dolce Via which has been inspired by the films of Fellini and Charlie Chaplin. The production is being presented by Take The Space in association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on 25 September.

Three days later, Love&Madness present a version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with two performances on 28 September.

A show charting the erratic course of a daughter’s love for her father is brought to the theatre in October by Full Beam Visual Theatre.

The Bristol-based touring theatre company brings its stylish puppet show My Baby Just Cares For Me to the Rose on 1 October.

Angel Exit Theatre company continue the puppetry theme with Moonfleet visiting the theatre, located on St Helens Road, on 7 November.

Weaving together live music, striking physicality and storytelling with the use of puppets, Moonfleet has been aspired by J Meade Falkner’s classic novel of the same title.

Prior to an appearance at Manchester’s Contact Theatre (25-27 November), new work from Liverpool playwright Laurence Wilson, who had his play Lost Monsters premiered at the Everyman in May this year, appears at the Rose Theatre on 19 November. Blackberry Trout Face is a production by 20 Stories High and explores themes of loyalty, family and ambition, which also appears at the Unity in Liverpool city centre during the autumn.

*Photograph taken by Stephanie De Leng