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Winterfall Theatre Company Winterfall Theatre Company is a professional, independent theatre company; Winterfall Theatre is committed to paying actors an Equity Award rate.

We have received money from a variety of sources and will be back as soon as the coronavirus permits Winterfall Theatre Company is a professional, independent theatre company that is based in Melbourne, Victoria. It began in Northcote at The Theatre Husk in 2010, but left that venue at the close of 2014. The Company now operates out of various theatres in Melbourne and information can be found on our website

http://www.winterfalltheatre.com

Drama With A Difference is run by the same owners as Winterfall Theatre Company and is one of Victoria's leading, independent drama schools. It has been operating for over twenty years and is the launching pad of many successful Australian actors. The school runs classes for aspiring actors as well as recreational classes for those who wish to build confidence and explore their creativity amongst like-minded people. There is a variety of classes for all ages and levels. For further information go to

http://www.dramawithadifference.com.au

We have obtained significant private funding and will soo be launching a season - feel free to get in touch and visit ou...
16/06/2026

We have obtained significant private funding and will soo be launching a season - feel free to get in touch and visit our websiter
www.winterfalltheatre.com.au

Fellow theatre practitioners - please visit Winterfall Theatre's new website and please feel free to get in touch!www.wi...
16/06/2026

Fellow theatre practitioners - please visit Winterfall Theatre's new website and please feel free to get in touch!
www.winterfalltheatre.com.au

Visit our website - Winterfall Theatre, an professional independent theatre company has obtained significant private fun...
16/06/2026

Visit our website - Winterfall Theatre, an professional independent theatre company has obtained significant private funding and will re-open after 10 years in the wilderness!

www.winterfalltheatre.com.au

After 10 years in the wilderness, Winterfall Theatre has obtained significant funding and is currently looking at pays a...
16/06/2026

After 10 years in the wilderness, Winterfall Theatre has obtained significant funding and is currently looking at pays and venues to reopen later this year, Visit our website at

www.winterfalltheatre.com.au

Winterall Theatre will return to Melbourne's theatre scene in 2026, hence we are posting some memories with our audienc...
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

In 2011. Winterfall Theatre produced Caryl Churchill's play A Number, directed by Catherine Hill, with Justin Hosking an...
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.

A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter, directed by Trent Baker with Felicity Soper, Phil Roberts, Michele Williams, based on...
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.

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T. B. A. For Upcoming Shows In 2026
Melbourne, VIC
3000

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