Picnic At Hanging Rock

Kate Dillon’s subtle and disturbing playscript interpretation of Joan Lindsay’s classic ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ was a pleasure to direct. Full scale scaffold towers cocooned in swathes of muslin represented the ludicrously oppressive sartorial expectations of white, colonial upperclass Australians and acted as projection screens for prerecorded footage shot on location at The Rock. Impeccable Costume Designer Emily Collett hand-made period accurate corsetry and suiting, and Lighting Designer Bron Pringle handled the tricky interplay between lighting and projections like the doyenne she is. Kate Lucas created a shadowy and haunting score recorded and mixed by audio warlock Andrew Rickard. With the flawless Production Management of Fiona Cheney, we ran a three show season at Prudence Lewty Hall, with an extra matinee open to feeder schools in the area.