The Ensemble Theatre, one of Sydney’s premier professional theatre companies, has launched its 2024 season.
Artistic Director Mark Kilmurry announced next year’s season at a function held at the theatre which was well attended by industry people and subscribers.
The 2024 program looks very interesting and should have broad appeal. The theatre will host 10 full scale productions, quite a load for a theatre company, as well as one special event, which will feature Todd McKenney who is celebrating 40 years in show business, with his self devised cabaret show, ‘Peter Allen and me’. McKenney was, of-course, the original Peter Allen in the late Nick Enright’s classic ‘The Boy From Oz’.
At first glance, the shows that stood out for me; Terrence McNally’s ‘Master Class’ about the brilliant Italian opera singer, Maria Callas, directed by Liesel Badorrek and starring Lucia Mastrantone.
‘The Great Divide’, a new play, I believe it is his 51st, by David Williamson, with a familiar theme for Williamson, wealth inequality and human greed. The play will be directed by Kilmurry and will star Kate Raison and Georgie Parker.
Joanne Murray-Smith has written a contemporary stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic ‘Uncle Vanya’ about an ageing and grandiose Professor with his new, much younger wife, Yelena, visiting family members who live on a crumbling country estate, to devastating effect. The play, directed by Kilmurry, will include actors Nicholas Papademetriou and Yalin Ozucelik.
But hey, these are just my picks. Check out the details of all the shows on the Ensemble website and of-course you can take out a subscriptions online.
Photograph of Georgie Parker by Brett Boardman. Photos from the launch by Ben Apfelbaum.
