2024 Season
Lift the lid on a magical season of theatre overflowing with stories untold and re-discovered. Ensemble stacks up ten exceptional plays and one very special event to ensure 2024 is bursting at the seams with fresh new comedy, insightful dramas and re-imagined classics, not to mention vibrant musical influences packed in.

ALONE IT STANDSBy John Breen
ALONE IT STANDS is the feel-good play of the summer, a tale for anyone who has ever dreamed the impossible.
- 25 Jan 2024 - 02 Mar 2024
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THE GREAT DIVIDEDavid Williamson's
Australia’s most prolific playwright David Williamson steps out of retirement to pen this new comedy with wise-cracking commentary on wealth inequality and human greed featuring Georgie Parker and Kate...
- 08 Mar 2024 - 27 Apr 2024
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SWITZERLANDby Joanna Murray-Smith
With Toni Scanlan as Patricia Highsmith, renowned Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith weaves a torrid web of wit and mystery in this gripping psychological thriller.
- 03 May 2024 - 08 Jun 2024
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ULSTER AMERICANby David Ireland
Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Brian Meegan and Jeremy Waters, reunite in this acerbic and brutally hilarious play exposing fragile egos and power in Hollywood.
- 13 May 2024 - 08 Jun 2024
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MASTER CLASSby Terrence McNally
Inspired by the turbulent life of renowned opera singer Maria Callas, Terrence McNally’s Tony Award-winning play MASTER CLASS is an explosive ode to the incomparable talents of one of...
- 14 Jun 2024 - 20 Jul 2024
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by Anton ChekhovUNCLE VANYAAdapted by Joanna Murray-Smith
Celebrated Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith breathes new life into Chekhov’s tragicomedy unveiling a hotbed of disillusionment and all-consuming unrequited love.
- 26 Jul 2024 - 31 Aug 2024
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THE QUEEN’S NANNYby Melanie Tait
From the creative team behind the sell-out success of THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE, this blackly funny play imagines a series of pivotal moments between two strong-spirited women harbouring...
- 06 Sep 2024 - 12 Oct 2024
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COLDER THAN HEREby Laura Wade
Laura Wade’s heart-breaking journey through love, loss and laughter earned the playwright a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and an Olivier Award nomination. COLDER THAN HERE is an offbeat comedy...
- 16 Sep 2024 - 12 Oct 2024
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MCGUFFIN PARKby Sam O'Sullivan
The iconic Aussie documentary RATS IN THE RANKS meets Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN in this brand new comedy about the cut-throat world of politics and media spin.
- 18 Oct 2024 - 23 Nov 2024
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THE HEARTBREAK CHOIRby Aidan Fennessy
Celebrating the healing power of music, THE HEARTBREAK CHOIR is a joyous love song to community, friendship and togetherness. A cast of audience favourites create the perfect harmony in...
- 29 Nov 2024 - 12 Jan 2025
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Special Event

Todd McKenney: Peter Allen and Me
Todd McKenney is back at Ensemble Theatre to celebrate 40 years in showbiz with his dazzling new show! Take a journey through Peter Allen’s greatest hits performed with a...
- 25 Jun 2024 - 10 Jul 2024
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