Overview
'I know you're there...Miranda? Miranda!' On a summer's day in 1900,
three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote
Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading
towards the beckoning Rock...In Tom Wright's chilling adaptation of Joan
Lindsay's classic novel, five performers struggle to solve the mystery
of the missing girls and their teacher. Euphoria and terror reverberate
throughout the community, as the potential for history to repeat itself
becomes nightmarishly real. This adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock
was first co-produced by Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre
Company, Perth, and first performed at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, in
2016. The play received its European premiere at the Royal Lyceum
Theatre Edinburgh, in 2017.