Winterfall Theatre Company

31/10/2025

Winterall Theatre will return to Melbourne's theatre scene in 2026, hence we are posting some memories with our audience! Stay tuned for 2026 information. Photo is of Adele Querol in As You Like IT 2010

31/10/2025

In 2011. Winterfall Theatre produced Caryl Churchill's play A Number, directed by Catherine Hill, with Justin Hosking and Phil Roberts. Summary of reviews included

"Catherine Hill’s direction marshals an incredibly nuanced, emotionally detailed performance that leaves room for unnervingly vague or contradictory elements. The production sinks its hooks deeply into the skin of everything you thought you know about family – and acting really doesn’t get much better than this" - Cameron Woodhead, the Age

"5 of out 5"
- Theatre People.

31/10/2025

A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter, directed by Trent Baker with Felicity Soper, Phil Roberts, Michele Williams, based on the book Awakenings by Oliver Sacks,

Reviews include

IN THE aftermath of World War I, a silent epidemic destroyed the lives of 5 million people around the globe.

The disease, known as encephalitis lethargica or "sleeping sickness", attacked the brain of its victims, leaving them immobile and unresponsive - entombed in their bodies.

The plague petered out in the mid-1920s. For the tiny minority of patients who survived, treatment was decades away.In the 1960s, experiments with newly discovered drug l-dopa woke many of these patients. Astoundingly, their higher brain functions - intellect, reasoning, memory - were often completely intact. But the drug's effects were short-lived, the remission cruelly temporary.. The plight of these patients and efforts to treat them were brought to popular attention in Oliver Sacks's book Awakenings. It inspired Harold Pinter to write A Kind of Alaska, a one-act play first performed starring Judi Dench.

Deborah (Michele Williams) succumbed to the disease as a bright 16-year-old girl. When she awakens, 30 years have passed. With her doctor, Hornby (Phil Roberts), and sister Pauline (Felicity Soper), she must confront a bizarre reality - that she has a teenager's mind trapped in a middle-aged body. It's a promising second production from Winterfall Theatre at its new venue. The company's long-term goal is to establish a permanent ensemble in the mould of Red Stitch, and the acting is certainly of a high standard.

Williams traps in amber the mannerisms and coquettishness of an upper-class teenage girl lost to time. It's a finely chiselled performance, brittle with mischievous intelligence and pathos, as she negotiates her way into existence, weaving a path around the kindly half-truths she is fed.

Trent Baker's production is sensitive to the power and the impotence of words. The playwright's famous pauses do a lot of heavy-lifting.

In lesser hands, the material would be sentimental, the enormity of the subject inevitably melodramatic. But Pinter's obsession with the contingency of human identity is a perfect fit; the phantasms of absurd menace that haunt his other works are -

Cameron Woodhead, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald.

18/01/2020

2016 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, directed by Denis Moore. 5 star review from Radio Monash. 2016

10/07/2016

Another excellent review of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Cassandra Magrath Jordan Fraser-Trumble Chris ConnellyMichele Williams. Set and costume design by Christine Logan-Bell.

02/07/2016

The strength of Williams and Connelly lies not only in their opposing dynamics but in their real chemistry which was wholly apparent– there was such an authentic sense of trust, connectedness and embodiment that made their multi faceted interplays so pleasurable to watch.

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Read full review of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in Theatre People

http://www.theatrepeople.com.au/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-2/

26/06/2016

Winter Theatre presents a new Melbourne production of Edward Albee’s classic play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Having ventured out into a freezing Melbourne night where snow was falling thickly somewhere on the mountains it was strangely not going to be a night of escaping the cold. The restauran...

31/05/2016

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? comes to Winterfall Theatre this June. It is a play that packs more than one punch as we ...

01/09/2014

This Week! - Final 4 performances of
"The Two Character Play" by Tennessee Williams
Winterfall Theatre Company at The Theatre Husk Northcote
Thurs @ 7.30pm, Frid @ 7.30pm, Sat @ 7.30pm, Sun @ 4pm
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Tennessee Williams's The Two Character Play revolves around two actors on tour- a brother and sist

21/08/2014

The Two Character Play - reviews out from Australian Stageonlinehttp://www.australianstage.com.au/201408186943/reviews/melbourne/the-two-character-play-%7C-winterfall-theatre.html

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