Exciting Weekend of Live Theatre Shines Bright on Central Coast

New Australian Contemporary Theatre is on this March with two high calibre theatre events on offer to the Central Coast community.

Taking up residence at The Peninsula Theatre at Woy Woy for three performances is Noëlle Janaczewska’s new play The End of Winter. The play speaks to our current climate crisis, written in the wake of the devastation of the 2019 bush fires.

Award winning Director Kate Jane Gaul brings this exquisite piece alive through a nuanced performance by Jane Phegan, recipient of Sydney Theatre Awards 2022 Best Performer in a leading role in an independent production, for this performance.

The End of Winter at The Peninsula Theatre

Friday 17 March 8pm & Saturday 18 March 2pm & 8pm

55 minutes no interval | Tickets from $22 Suitable for audiences 13+

“Summer may seem to define us in Australia, but Noëlle Janaczewska’s new play is a moving, even joyous paean to all things wintry. But it comes with a mournful bite: climate change will make her winter a mere memory.” Martin Portus from Stage Whispers

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.

Showcased on the Laycock Street Community Theatre stage is NEWK (The John Newcombe Story) which traces the life of the great Australian tennis champion of the 1960s and 70s, John Newcombe. NEWK is brought to life by award-winning Melbourne playwright Kieran Carroll and performed by three time Barry Award nominee and star of recent hit film The Merger , Damian Callinan.

The play is set in 2014 at Newk’s 70th birthday in Sydney. Numerous well-known guests drop by to celebrate his special day and share the memories. Both drama and comedy, the play portrays a highly determined and ambitious man burning through a quickly changing world. Aware he’s putting his family second emotionally while conscious of providing for them financially, the play exposes the exhausting schedules that even players of yesteryear endured. Volatile off-court politics are also rife as the game moves into full blown professionalism.

NEWK at Laycock Street

Community Theatre

Sunday 19 March – 2pm

Tickets from $30

NEWK (The John Newcombe Story) is a grand story which will take the audience on a huge ride; where rest is secondary and finally how that zest and appetite for life never disappears but has to be tempered.