​DETAILS
Sunday 10 September
2.00pm
Maleny Community Centre
55 minutes (no interval)

TICKETS
Adults $40   Members $35   Students $25
THE END OF WINTER
​Siren Theatre Co and Critical Stages present Noëlle Janaszewska’s 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: “Noëlle’s unfailing ability to ignite universal emotions and laughter in all of us while gloriously revealing her own exquisite uniqueness is one of this piece’s great joys. This is a feminist work, which explores shifting identities - writer, child, carer, lover, explorer.”

The themes and ideas contained within The End of Winter lean into the most significant issue of our time – the changing climate and its affect on the seasons.

The End of Winter is a different take on climate change weaving a story in the way only theatre can do.
.WHAT THE REVIEWERS SAID
 
★★★★ 1⁄2 “It’s a bravura performance from Jane Phegan... As crisp and clear as a frosty night, it is a theatrical experience of bone-warming depth and of hope.” Reviews by Judith 

★★★★ “The End of Winter is often enlightening, often sobering, and occasionally laugh-out- loud funny. Recommended.” Diana Simmonds, Stage Noise 

“...an elegy for the imminent loss of seasons and a love letter to the cold.” Cassie Tongue, SMH 

“Exquisitely written... one woman’s cerebral, deeply personal, eco-poetic odyssey, in which she travels through the realms of childhood memories and forgotten histories, science and art, folklore and myth to present a paean to winter, sung in the key of anticipatory loss.” Kate Pendergast, Audrey Journal 
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“Janaczewska’s script is part sensory, part scientific, part history, totally literate and humongously heartfelt.” Richard Cotter, Sydney Arts Guide 
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“It is a celebration of winter and cold as well as a warning about climate change. It is also, most movingly, a reflection on the nature of loss itself.” Ned Hirst, Arts Hub
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