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Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble are excited to announce they are now accepting applications to audition for QSE‘s 2026 Core Ensemble and Apprentice Program. Key dates: Applications Close: 5pm Friday 21 November Auditions: Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November Call-backs: Monday 1 December Core Ensemble Applicants for the Core Ensemble will be skilled actors with a solid foundation in training, a passion... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Benjamin Prindable Photography Lose yourself in the enchanted forest of A Midsummer Night's Dream, brought to life with music, mischief, and magic by the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. In this Shakespearean comedy, four young lovers find themselves in the forest outside of Athens – Hermia loves Lysander (reimagined in this production as Lysandra) but... Continue Reading →
A Midsummer Night's Dream 15 - 30 August 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton “The course of true love never did run smooth…” On a midsummer night, four young lovers—embroiled in a love quadrangle—escape the constraints of the city and flee into the woods just outside Athens. There, the line between the real world and the fairy... Continue Reading →
Good In Everything: An Annual Appeal Celebration 13 June 2025 Avalon Theatre, University of Queensland All tickets $20 Join the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble for a joyful evening of Shakespeare-themed revelry as they celebrate their Annual Appeal with Good In Everything: a night of community, creativity, and delightful chaos! For just $20, your ticket includes nibbles,... Continue Reading →
Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) is excited to announce that auditions for their 2025 Core Ensemble, Apprentice Program and Advanced Apprentice Program will be held on the afternoons of 30 November and 1 December 2024, with callbacks 6-11pm on Monday 2 December. APPLICATIONS Applications must be received by 5pm on 22 November. Applications are encouraged from... Continue Reading →
Liliana Macarone (Brutus) Lillian Duggan (Caesar) and Rebecca Murphy (Cassius), photographed by Benjamin Prindable Photography Julius Caesar 7 - 24 November 2024 The Avalon Theatre, St Lucia Politics is sport. Sport is politics. And the fight for power is a high-stakes game. When Caesar returns to Rome, riding high on a wave of victories and... Continue Reading →
Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble bring an infectious joyful energy and their signature lyrical skill and musicality to Molière’s famed satire Tartuffe, directed and choreographed by Rebecca Murphy. First performed at the Palace of Versailles in 1664, Tartuffe offended the Archbishop of Paris and members of the French Catholic Church, who had the play officially censured by... Continue Reading →
Tartuffe 12 - 28 July 2024 PIP Theatre, Milton “You see him as a saint. I’m way less awed; In fact, I see right through him. He’s a fraud!” First performed and then speedily banned in 1664, Molière’s Tartuffe is a satirical exploration of greed, seduction, piety, and deception. This July, the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble... Continue Reading →
Shakespeare Pick and (re)Mix 18 & 25 November 203 The Jayco Lunchbox, George Clayton Park, 55 Upper Esplanade, Manly QLD 4179 Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo, and Juliet walk into a bar… Calling Shakespeare lovers, Shakespeare loathers, and everyone in between! Come on down to The Jayco Lunchbox and join us for a dose of rambunctious laughter,... Continue Reading →
Liliana Macarone (centre) as Penelope, with the maids, photographed by Benjamin Prindable Photography Content warning: physical and sexual stylised violence and mild coarse language. Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble brought their signature dynamism, theatricality, and musical skill to Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a contemporary retelling of Homer’s epic poems that focuses on Penelope, the wife of Odysseus,... Continue Reading →
The Penelopiad 25 August - 10 September 2023 PIP Theatre, Milton “Now that I am dead I know everything…” The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble will bring Margaret Atwood’s epic novella-turned-play, The Penelopiad to Brisbane with PIP Theatre, directed by Rebecca Murphy. Penelope, dutiful wife of Odysseus and less beautiful cousin of Helen, is ready to tell... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Murphy and Rob Pensalfini as Lady and Lord Macbeth. Image by Benjamin Prindable Photography. Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble performed Macbeth for the first time in the company’s 21-year history, presented in the intimate performance space at the Fringe Brisbane Hub in South Brisbane. Directed by Angela Witcher, an ensemble of twelve actors tackled Shakespeare’s shortest... Continue Reading →
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