Win double passes to ‘Neighbourhood Watch’

EIGHT LUCKY readers can win a double pass to ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ which opens at the Pottery Lane Performance Space in Lane Cove on May 20. NSW High School Drama Teacher Kathryn Thomas is collaborating with Lane Cove Theatre Company to bring the major HSC work, ‘Neighbourhood Watch’, to the stage. Addressing themes around friendship, xenophobia, generational trauma and connection, ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ is a chance to help students along their HSC journey, and provide performance and production work experience opportunities for many. Ms Thomas, who will also be directing, says discussing a play in the classroom can only take you so far. Lane Cove Theatre Company’s cast of ‘Neighbourhood Watch’. Top, l to r, Jack Stout, Miriam Fagueret, Caitlin Clancy and Isobel Rabbidge⁠. Bottom, l to r, Christopher O’Shea, Gabriel Jab’bar, Luca Savini and Penny Day (image: Lane Cove Theatre company). “The themes and nuances that are crucial to understanding ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ truly come to life when it’s onstage, as the playwright intended,” she said. ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ is a comedy about hope, death and pets – Ana is a battle hardened Hungarian-Australian veteran of the 20th century. Catherine is her neighbour, a 20-something aspiring actress waiting for a better world. As their unlikely odd-couple friendship develops, Catherine’s life is transformed by Ana’s stories of the traumas of war, the desolation of the refugee experience, and the struggle of settling in a foreign land. In turn, Ana is granted one last great friendship at a time when the journey to her life’s end was looking to be a lonely one. This story takes on a sense of enormity in the midst of the ordinary, questioning whether we really know what’s out there in the ‘burbs’. For more info and to book tickets, go to lanecovetheatrecompany.com.au To WIN! simply visit our website – weeklytimes.com.au – click on the ‘Win with TWT’ tab and follow the instructions. Winners will be drawn on May 11 and contacted by The Weekly Times, with their names published in the May 13 edition. CHECK OUT THE LATEST EDITION OF THE WEEKLY TIMES BY CLICKING BELOW! window.df_option_74255 = {"source":"https:\/\/www.weeklytimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TWT290426.pdf","outline":[],"overwritePDFOutline":false,"pageSize":"0","slug":"the-weekly-times-29th-april-2026","wpOptions":"true","id":74255}; if(window.DFLIP && window.DFLIP.parseBooks){window.DFLIP.parseBooks();} The post Win double passes to ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ appeared first on THE WEEKLY TIMES.