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Rose to transfer to the West End starring Maureen Lipman
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(Updated on 27 Jan 2023)
**Martin Sherman**'s hilariously savvy and moving production [***Rose***](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/play/rose-tickets-london) is scheduled to transfer to London’s [**Ambassadors Theatre**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/venue/ambassadors-theatre-london) for 28 performances starting on Tuesday, 23 May, following sell-out runs and rave reviews at The Park Theatre in London and Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester. Once again, the production will be led by the magnetic **Maureen Lipman**. Journey through a 20th-century turbulent Jewish experience as Lipman masterfully narrates this delicate historical drama of memory and heritage. Book tickets to see **Maureen Lipman** star in *Rose* at the Ambassadors Theatre today!
## About *Maureen Lipman *
Olivier award-winning actress, writer and comedian **Maureen Lipman** has endured a decades-long highly successful career in entertainment. She began her endeavours as a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1971 to 1973, where she made her stage debut in a production of *The Knack* at the Palace Theatre, Watford. Lipman has also made appearances in the Royal Shakespeare Company and has starred in countless West End productions including, *Messiah*, *Wonderful Town*, *ReJoice*, *Glorious*, *Oklahoma*, *& Daytona*. For the last five years, she has been delighting television audiences as Evelyn Plummer on *Coronation Street*. For her services to arts, charity and entertainment, Lipman was made a dame at the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours.
## About *Rose *
As she sits in Shiva, a period of Jewish ritual mourning, eighty-year-old Rose ponders back on a tumultuous life, one that contains era-defining moments and spans continents. Through the life of one woman's anarchic experience, from the devastation of Nazi-occupied Europe to the American dream, *Rose* ****tells the story of a century where everything but the violence of the strong against the weak changed. It is an ode to a Jewish 20th-century experience that whilst personal, is also universal.
## About ***Martin Sherman ***
*Rose* is written by award-winning **Martin Sherman** whose other plays include *Bent*, *Messiah*, *A MadHouse in Goa* as well as *When She Danced*, the films *Alive and Kicking* and *Mrs Henderson Presents* as well as the Broadway Musical *The Boy From Oz*.
### *Rose* tickets are on sale this Friday!
It is a life crowded with incidents but one that is rich with experience and wisdom, witness one woman’s touching journey in the spectacular *Rose* at Ambassadors Theatre. Book your tickets for *Rose*, on sale with London Theatre Direct this Friday 27th January at 12pm!