Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
5-7 May 2022
Director: Lowri Mathias
Adapted by: Tom Wright
Designer: Matthew Cassar
Lighting Design: Dan Knipe
Sound Design and Original Music: Hannah Bracegirdle
Voice Coach: Penelope Rubach
Costume Supervisor: Jo Kenney
Cast: Carlie Diamond, Rebecca Hyde, Louise O’Dowd, Tanvi Virmani, Eve Pereira
Photo Credit: Craig Fuller
“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?
