Tag: Rose Theatre

The Rose Playhouse Panoramas

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality 360 views of The Rose Playhouse.

Instructions:

If viewing on a desktop or laptop computer:

  1. Scroll down and choose a panorama to view.
  2. Click on the Play icon then, when loaded, scroll around with the mouse to view from different directions.

If viewing on a phone or tablet:

  1. Scroll down and choose a panorama to view.
  2. Click on the Play icon then, when loaded, scroll around with your finger to view from different directions, OR
  3. Click on the Compass Icon and you can move the device itself around to view. Just make sure you don’t have a case with a magnet to interfere with the device transducer readings, OR
  4. If you have a Google Cardboard Viewer or similar, click on the icon that looks a bit like a Band-Aid and insert your phone in the viewer.

Enjoy!

Eric

The views:

Outside Chomley’s House:

Outside the Rose Playhouse:

Standing inside the entrance:

Standing in the yard:

Standing on the stage:

View from the 2nd tier gallery:

The Rose Theatre Project

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality 3D reconstruction of the medieval Rose Theatre, London.

Currently a work in progress.

This is how Phase I of the building is thought to have looked. The building was later improved and enlarged.

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The Rose was built in 1587 by Philip Henslowe and by a grocer named John Cholmley who lived in the house that can be seen next door to the Rose. The Globe Theatre was later built just across the road from the Rose.  Henslowe gave up the playhouse in 1605 when the rent was increased significantly and it is believed to have been demolished shortly afterwards.

The building foundations survive to this day. They are flooded with water for preservation but can be visited. They are to be found in the basement of an office building in Park Street near Southwark Bridge just a few hundred metres from the current location of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Internal screenshots can be found under the Virtual Reality category link on the right.