A beautiful new production that asks ‘will climate change erase winter leaving it to exist only in fairy tales, paintings, and historical accounts?

Siren Theatre Co and the award-winning team behind Good With Maps are collaborating again on Noëlle Janaczewska’s next masterpiece – The End of Winter.

Will climate change erase winter leaving it to exist only in fairy tales, paintings, and historical accounts? In hot, bushfire-prone Australia our winters are becoming warmer and shorter. The End of Winter is about loss and resilience. It’s about the places one can search for cold weather —places that can be reached via public transport and the imagination.

This is a new work for the stage that speaks to our current climate crisis. Written in the wake of the devastation of the 2019 bush fires it asks: What’s happening to winter?

Noëlle Janaczewska is a multi-award-winning Australian writer whose plays, radio scripts, libretti, fiction, and essays have been performed, broadcast and published throughout Australia and overseas.
From Kate Gaul: “There is something of an elegiac quality to the writing as the speaker shares the loss of her mother. Indeed, grief and loss are themes tightly woven into this story of The End of Winter. But so is regeneration, adaptability, legacy, and hope. We live in a complex time of geo-history.”
The themes and ideas contained within The End of Winter lean into the most significant issue of our time – the changing climate and the loss of seasons.

Telling and sharing stories, from the scientific to the personal, is one the most important tools we have to survive climate change. It’s easy to get into a typical conversation about the weather. It’s harder to talk about how changing weather patterns relate to climate change – especially when climate and weather can often get confused. In Australia, we’ve experienced it all: extreme heat, devastating droughts, raging bushfires, floods and cyclones. But these extreme weather events are getting worse as the world heats up.

HSC Drama IP Seminar

Producer and director Kate Gaul leads a lively seminar around Siren Theatre Co’s production of The End of Winter.  As a solo performance, The End of Winter is part performance essay and part dramatic monologue. With a focus on the HSC Individual Projects of Performance, Directing and Design, Kate unpacks the creation of this work from creative development, through the design and marketing decisions and the key considerations in directing the actor, Jane Phegan.

How and why does this text need to be performed? How do we go about interpreting and balancing the various themes and story lines of the piece?  What elements does the director use to convey theme, story, and character? How are these elements conceived and how do they impact the actor and audience? How do the design elements equally represent and support the director and playwrights’ intent, whilst also being functional?

Participants also have a chance to hear from performer, Jane Phegan and ask questions about the challenging task of a 55-minute monologue.

Winner

" Best Performance Sydney Theatre Awards"

EDUCATION BOOKINGS & RESOURCES

EDUCATION PERFORMANCE DATES

Wednesday 22 November 2023 at 11am

HSC Drama IP Seminar

Wednesday 22 November 2023 at 1pm

Education Tickets & Pricing

$25 ea
1 teacher free for every 20 students booked. For further information and to book please contact our Education Booking Officer or fill in our Education Booking Form.

SHOW SUITABLE FOR YEARS 9 – 12 (Stages 5 – 6)
SEMINAR SUITABLE FOR YEARS 11 – 12 (Stage 6)

The End of Winter HSC Drama IP Seminar

Producer and director Kate Gaul leads a lively seminar around Siren Theatre Co’s production of The End of Winter.  As a solo performance, The End of Winter is part performance essay and part dramatic monologue. With a focus on the HSC Individual Projects of Performance, Directing and Design, Kate unpacks the creation of this work from creative development, through the design and marketing decisions and the key considerations in directing the actor, Jane Phegan.

How and why does this text need to be performed? How do we go about interpreting and balancing the various themes and story lines of the piece?  What elements does the director use to convey theme, story, and character? How are these elements conceived and how do they impact the actor and audience? How do the design elements equally represent and support the director and playwrights’ intent, whilst also being functional?

Participants also have a chance to hear from performer, Jane Phegan and ask questions about the challenging task of a 55-minute monologue.

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Accessibility

In English

Wheelchair accessible

Companion Card accepted

Assistive Hearing system available (FM)

Descriptive pre-show notes available

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The End of Winter was first produced by Siren Theatre Co and opened in Sydney on 3 February 2022 at SBW Stables Theatre. The production is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, it’s arts funding and advisory body.