The Rose is proud to be 'See it Safely' approved. For more information about our COVID-19 secure venue click here. If you cannot match your seating requirements please call the box office on 020 8174 0090. When booking for this performance you will need to select all seats in a bubble to be able to proceed. The Rose has implemented all necessary measures to ensure we are a COVID-19 secure venue and have met the guidelines set out by the government to make your visit safe. Performances of The War of The Worlds are currently on sale with socially distanced seating and will remain socially distanced even after the 19 July lifting of restrictions. Potentially sensitive content: scenes of vaping, family argument/shouting, brief references (heard only) to people being killed by aliens, brief references (heard only) to people committing suicide ★★★★ “A smart, engagingly layered show” - The Stage Genre: Sci-fi Original Language: English Director. ★★★★ “A whirling multi-rolling ensemble… just juicy” - WhatsOnStage The last survivor of a Martian invasion of Earth provides an eyewitness account of the attack by the aliens and their huge machines of war. Wells’ sci-fi novel and Orson Welles’ classic radio play, this legendary science fiction thriller is playfully reimagined for our era of "Fake News" and "alternative facts". Fast forward to 2021, and the internet has replaced the radio as the medium through which we make sense of the world. In fact, it felt so real that it caused hysteria amongst a public just getting used to the outside world invading their living rooms via the radio. WAR OF THE WORLDS stars Tom Cruise as Ray, a disheartened, divorced father, taking care of his two children - 10-year-old Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and.
When Orson Welles adapted The War of the Worlds, he wanted to create a thrilling radio drama that would ‘feel’ real. There is nothing more alluring than a good story. Now we’ve come to believe everything the internet tells us and the end of the world is being broadcast live. We believed a water tower was an alien war machine. We believed that Martians landed in New Jersey. “No-one would have believed in the early years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched.”
Temporarily halted in their tracks by the pandemic, the aliens are back amongst us in 2021.
"Rhum and Clay’s super-smart, multi-layered new show, War of the Worlds" - Lyn Gardner Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Originally Commissioned by New Diorama Theatre.Ĭo-produced by Brighton Festival and HOME Manchester.
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