In David Williamson’s new play THE SOCIAL LADDER,
Mandy Bishop plays Williamson’s latest very ambitious
protagonist Katie Norris. Katie has worked for a long time in
the arts admin world and has made a good life for herself.
She and …
All three encounters in Neil Simon’s PLAZA SUITE (1968), each of which feature different characters, take place in the one hotel suite, Suite 719 of New York City’s Plaza Hotel.
The first meeting, Visitor From Mamaroneck, features a wife, …
Ensemble Theatre has announced the latest ‘Ensemble Conversations’ for people to stay connected to the theatre.
This week legendary Australian playwright David Williamson takes the Ensemble Conversation’s hot seat chatting to our Artistic Director Mark Kilmurry.
Ensemble Theatre is synonymous …
With great anticipation from his doting audience, David Williamson sat down to watch his final play ‘CRUNCH TIME’. After 50 successful years as a playwright, he is retiring.
It’s strangely fitting that his final play should be about the grim …
There’s a favourite Cat Stevens song that goes ‘Oh baby, it’s a wild world/you can’t get by just upon a smile, girl’. The song was going around in my head more than little as I watched this latest David Williamson …
There’s a real fearlessness to Theatre on Chester’s latest offering. In the main, the stage is peopled with odious characters who espouse ideas that range from racist to a downright bigoted wrongness. And very easy to caricature but here, …
In her program notes, Director Nadia Tass references the careful balance that Playwright David Williamson creates between gravity and humour. With that in mind, SORTING OUT RACHEL at the Ensemble Theatre is a play somewhat of your own making. On …
Playwriting Australia, the national organisation supporting new writing for the stage, is presenting the inaugural Chain Play, a celebrity fundraising gala crammed with the best playwrights and theatre artists from around the country.
Twenty of Australia’s most exciting and …
THE REMOVALISTS is one of David Williamson’s first and most influential plays, an iconic Australian play of the seventies dealing with domestic violence issues, that are still with us in 2015.
The Epicentre Theatre Company’s current revival features a very …
Presented by Ensemble, DREAM HOME is the latest offering from David Williamson. Someone I met at the show compared Williamson’s comedies to seventies sitcoms: funny, if a little predictable and out of date. I have to admit, that was a …