COPING WITH WINTER
by DAVID WILLIAMSON
WORLD PREMIERE – PREVIEW
DIRECTED by RORY WILLIAMSON
STARRING:
ERIK THOMSON – RENAI CARUSO – JANNEKE WILLIAMSON
FEATURING:
GLEN MILLER – TOM MIDDLETON
Due to demand, NOOSA alive! has released a world ‘preview’performance.
Be the first to see COPING with WINTER
by DAVID WILLIAMSON.
As a final dress and technical rehearsal (Preview – with audience), in the event of an unforeseen circumstance, the performance may be paused momentarily before continuing.
COPING with Winter is a major fund-raising event, proudly presented by NOOSA alive!
SYNOPSIS
Gabriel Winter is the richest and most powerful person in Australia, but his ruthless climb to the top has left a lot of wreckage in his wake. Two failed marriages, children who won’t speak to him and brutally discarded friends and executives who hate him. Now at the age of sixty it all catches up with him. He can barely drag himself out of bed every morning.
He recruits Ellie Emerson, a young Associate Professor of Positive Psychology to tell him what he should do to get his life back on track.
She agrees to help him, but he decides the thing that will make him happy is her. The thought of marrying a man she regards as the Prince of Darkness horrifies her, but not her old friend Amy who, sick of the professional grind, contrives to make herself noticed. Ellie isn’t amused.
A darkly funny play of sexual intrigue and deceit, that also manages to hold up a mirror to the kind of country that has allowed Gabriel and his mates to ensure that the land of the Fair Go is nothing more than a rapidly disappearing speck in our national rear vision mirror.
