- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
About this book
'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.
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Topic
LittératureSubtopic
ThéâtreOne
A room.
A girl in school uniform, with hat. As you would see on a Melbourne tram. Or a Blackman painting.
AMBERAustralia is a thin layer of scum
Floating on a vast volcanic lake.
It is true that for the last few blinks of an eye this crust has held sure
The boiling magma below is forgotten
Or ignored
A truth we pretend we do not know
But quietitude is highly unusual in this country
The normal state of affairs is emanations, eruptions,
Puncturing the veneer, spreading ash, pumice, and rock in liquid form.
In a geological sense, we sleep on a sea of flame
And all through our land, there are portals.
Gateways to eternal fire.
The doors of Hell.
This is Australia.
Blackout.
A sign on the wall, high above: ‘PERFECTLY USELESS MOVEMENT’.
She has been joined by four other girls in the same uniform. They stand equally spaced across the stage.
NIKKIHigh on the wall
A sign over the assembled school:
GIRLS‘SILENCE IS GOLDEN’
ARIELLEMrs Appleyard
Splays the girls about her
Imperious
She lambasts them with Englishness
ELIZABETHAre we all present?
Good
Well, young ladies, we are indeed fortunate in the weather for our picnic to Hanging Rock
I have instructed Mademoiselle that as the day is likely to be warm, you may remove your gloves after the drag has passed through Woodend
You will partake of luncheon at the Picnic Grounds near the Rock
Once again let me remind you that the Rock itself is extremely dangerous and you are therefore forbidden to engage in any tomboy foolishness in the matter of exploration, even on the lower slopes
It is, however, a geological marvel on which you will be required to write a brief essay on Monday morning
I also wish to remind you that the vicinity is renowned for its venomous snakes and poisonous ants of various species I think that is all
Have a pleasant day and try to behave yourselves in a manner to bring credit to the College
I shall expect you back, Miss M...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Epigraph
- Characters
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Extract from The Age, February 14th, 1913
- About the Authors
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information