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Metamorphoses 2008

The visionary reimagining of Ovid's tales returns to the stage in the Visy Theatre at the Brisbane Powerhouse for a strictly limited season after a stunning preview at the 2007 2high Festival. Do you have the passion to face your shadows and transform yourself?

 

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a 'coming of age' love story filled with lively celebration and sharp witty interaction. The stage is set in Messina, Italy, a town celebrating the end of a war, and the audience is taken on a playful journey through intrigue and deception as we celebrate the way animosity can be transformed into love.

 

Shakespeare's Shorts - Season 2007

QSE's trademark touring performances of their fast, funny versions of Shakespeare's most famous plays appear in 2007 in their own season! See The Half-Hour Hamlet, Instant Romeo & Juliet, and Midsummer's Mechanicals back-to-back in this riotous reworking of the Bard's best.

 

Metamorphoses

Cast light on your shadows if you dare! The Ensemble's main production for 2006 will be an exciting stage adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses - archetypal Greek tales. As part of the !Metro Arts Independents program, the production will use Poet Laureate of England, Ted Hughes' treatment of Metamorphoses and seek to fuse text driven training with physical theatre approaches to create a raw, powerful performance experience.

 

ACE Project

The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble is piloting an Arts in Community Enhancement program as part of the World Shakespeare 2006 activities. In partnership with the The Department of Corrective Services, The Supreme Court Library, The Queensland Law Society, The University of Queensland and Theatre of the Oppressed practioner Brent Blair.

 

Shakespeare's Briefs - or - Let's Kill All the Lawyers! 2006

In an Australian first, the Banco Court of the Queensland Supreme Court Complex will become a hyper-realistic set for some of the most famous and infamous Shakespeare trials - including The Merchant of Venice and The Winter's Tale, and featuring guest judges drawn from the bench of the Queensland Supreme Court.

 

The Madness of King Lear 2005

 

Comedy of Errors 2005

 

Pyramus and Thisby 2005

 

Coriolanus 2003

 

Pericles 2003

 

As You Like It 2002