- Dates Thu 05 May 2022 - Sat 07 May 2022
- Location The Wardrobe Theatre
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Ticket Price
Tickets £10 per double bill
£35 for a festival ticket -
Times
7.30pm
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Adapted by Tom Wright
Directed by Lowri Mathias
Designed by Matthew Cassar
An eerie exploration into the century-old Australian mystery
“The Rock is a nightmare, and nightmares belong in the past.”
Valentine’s Day, 1900. A group of school girls set out on a picnic. Three of them never come back.
Adapted from Joan Lindsay’s acclaimed novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock follows five school girls as they attempt to piece together what went wrong on that school trip so many years ago, and, more chillingly, how the mystery spiralled out of control in the aftermath, sending the local community into depression and chaos.
As the shadows grow longer, the barriers between past and present, truth and fiction, now and then, begin to blur, and the long lost schoolgirls suddenly appear to be nightmarishly real. Does anything ever really stay gone?
This amateur production of Picnic at Hanging Rock is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
This play is part of a double bill with Hamlet as part of Directors’ Festival 2022.
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Content Warning
Recommended for ages 12+
Mentions of suicide; description of a corpse
Mentions of sexual assault
Slight flashing lights
Mild violence
Cast
Amber Eve Periera
Nikki Tanvi Virmani
Arielle Carlie Diamond
Elizabeth Rebecca Hyde
Harriet Louise O’Dowd
Creative and Technical Team
Director Lowri Mathias
Designer Matthew Cassar
Voice Coach Penelope Rubach
Lighting Designer and Operator Dan Knipe
Sound Designer and Operator Hannah Bracegirdle
Original music by Hannah Bracegirdle
Assistant Production Manager Joe Culpin
Costume Supervisor Jo Kenney
Stage Manager Soph Robinson
Deputy Stage Manager Elsa Gear
Prop Makers Ziva Bucer, Tommy Karolyi, Isabella Keating, Lisa Viel-Vigneron
Construction Assistants Jocelyn Chen, Iona Hicks, Muir McFadden, Sally Strong
