The End of Winter by Siren Theatre Co (Australia)
Part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025
- Theatre
- Drama-English
Sessions Available
Dates and Times:
8 January 2025, Wednesday, 8pm
9 January 2025, Thursday, 8pm
Synopsis
★★★★★
...complex, entertaining, emotionally varied but crystal clear
—Theatre Travels
Will climate change erase winter, leaving it to exist only in fairy tales, paintings, and historical accounts? In hot, bushfire-prone Australia, the winters are increasingly warmer and shorter with each passing year.
Winner of Best Actor at the Sydney Theatre Critics Award and Sustainability Award at the Adelaide Fringe 2024, The End of Winter is about loss and resilience. But it’s also about the places one can search for cold weather—places that can be reached via public transport, or a little imagination...
The End of Winter is a moving, evocative love letter to winter, written in the unrelenting Australian summer.
★★★★★
It’s a bravura performance from Jane Phegan...a theatrical experience of bonewarming depth and of hope.
—Reviews by Judith
Accessibility features: Open captions in English for all shows.
There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 9 January 2025. Please email your request to [email protected] by 6 December 2024.
Terms and Conditions
General
Once tickets are sold, there are strictly no cancellation, exchange or refund.
For concession tickets, random verification checks may be carried out at the theatre.
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Photography
Photography and videography are strictly not allowed during the performance.
Accessibility
We welcome patrons who need accessible seating arrangements—including wheelchair users, those who require access to open captions, and those with assistance dogs.
Due to varying production designs and seating configurations, please contact us at [email protected] before booking your ticket so we can share more information about seating and routes with you. You can also find more information about accessibility at the Fringe website.
For queries or more information, please contact us at [email protected].
Artist Line Up and Bio:
SIREN THEATRE CO
Siren Theatre Co commissions and produces new Australian plays, classics, work for young people and families, and partners with producing and presenting organisations to give our vital artists and audiences bold imaginative experiences.
Siren is always evolving but these things hold true: the work would look ridiculous in other mediums; always tell a good story; keep the actor at the centre of the work; don’t add to the crap in the world; the work is beautiful, rigorous, imaginative, and timely.
Telling female-centred stories; interpreting plays through a female-centred lens is as important as supporting exciting female artists. Not exclusively. But preferably.
PLAYWRIGHT – NOËLLE JANACZEWSKA
Noëlle Janaczewska is a playwright, poet, and essayist. She is the author of The Book of Thistles (UWA Publishing)—part environmental history, part poetry, part memoir—and the collection Scratchland (UWA Publishing Poetry Series). A graduate of Oxford and London Universities with a Doctorate from University of Technology Sydney, she is the recipient of multiple awards, fellowships, and residencies, including the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Digital History Prize, a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Griffin Award, ten AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild Industry Excellence) Awards and a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale for her body of work as a dramatist. Noëlle’s recent productions include
Mrs C Private Detective (ABC Radio National, 2022); Experiment Street (ABC Radio National, 2019); Yellow Yellow Sometimes Blue (Q Theatre /Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney, 2018); audio scripts for the National Museum of Australia and the British Museum’s Rome: City and Empire exhibition, and Good With Maps (Siren Theatre Co, multiple seasons 2016–2021).
PRODUCER & DIRECTOR – KATE GAUL
Kate Gaul is a theatre and opera director, creative producer, festival director, and designer based in Sydney, New South Wales. Kate has established herself as a distinctive and inventive director, with directing credits including plays, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and classics for theatre companies and schools in Australia. Most recent directing credits include a new play CAMP for a sell-out season at Sydney World Pride 2023 and an acclaimed interpretation of H.M.S Pinafore, which toured extensively and played Sydney Festival. The End of Winter by Noëlle Janaczewska, on national tour in2023/4; Kate completed a play, Girl Running, Boy Falling (Shortlisted Stoddard Playwright Award and Longlisted Monte Miller Award) Kate directs a new production of The Magic Flute for Opera Australia's Summer Season and will play Geelong later this year and premieres a new play by Noëlle Janaczewska, The Past is a Wild Party. As an Artistic producer Kate works closely with Clockfire Theatre Company whose current production Plenty of Fish in the Sea tours internationally this year.
PERFORMER – JANE PHEGAN
Jane has toured many shows nationally and internationally, voiced radio plays for ABC and Eastside and worked on several new scripts with Playwriting Australia. For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Dir: Jasmila Zbanic) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 and Jane was awarded Best Female Lead at the Sydney Indie Film Festival for Entailment (Dir: Cam Smeal). From 2005-14, Jane devised and performed in all of version 1.0’s major works including The Table of Knowledge, THIS KIND OF RUCKUS (Helpmann Award, Best Physical/Visual Theatre) and Deeply Offensive & Utterly Untrue (Drover Award, Best Touring Show).
COMPOSER – NATE EDMONDSON
Nate is an international, multi-award-winning composer, sound designer, musical director, and occasional video designer for film, television, radio, advertising and stage. Nate originally trained as a classical and jazz trombonist, and pianist, in addition to fronting several bands as a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter, and arranger.
Currently based in New York City, Nate has worked extensively in the theatre and live events industries and his detailed music scores and sound designs can regularly be heard on stages around the world.
DESIGNER – SOHAM APTE
Soham Apte is a Sydney-based production and costume designer. He is of Indian heritage and grew up in Dubai, before moving to Sydney. After moving to Sydney, Soham studied at a specialist visual arts and design school where his love for art history and design practices grew exponentially. That love kept growing during his time at the National Institute of Dramatic Art studying Design for Performance (BFA, 2022).
LIGHTING DESIGNER – BECKY RUSSELL
Becky is a theatre and events professional with extensive experience in artistic, technical and project direction. She has focused her career in regional Australia, working on countless productions, festivals and community projects in a variety of roles including; artistic director, project director, event mentor, as well as providing technical and production support for regional artists and communities.