The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) is an Australian theatre company. It is based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is the resident theatre company of the University of Queensland.
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The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble exists to engage a variety of Queensland communities with the works of William Shakespeare - in order to strengthen the connections and relationships between community members, and to create evocative, engaging theatre that awakes the senses and impassions the lives of its audiences and artists.
QSE does this through performance, training of students, teachers, and actors, and a variety of community engagement projects such as the Arts in Community Enhancement project run in Queensland prisons in 2006, 2009 and 2010.
QSE sees theatre primarily as a medium for a community to speak the unspoken, and to ask the questions that are important to its survival and development. The Ensemble's core belief is that this process is most powerful when it is undertaken by a community of actors who train and work together on a regular basis.