BY JOAN LINDSAY | ADAPTED BY TOM WRIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CRAIG FULLER
‘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.
VENUE
Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
Company
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Run lenght
5-7th May 2022
Category
Horror/ Mystery
EPIGRAM.
Mathias’ play, brought to life by her highly talented cast and accomplished team of creatives, demonstrated the extremely high calibre of the BOVTS students and indicates the unquestionable potential for those involved in their professional careers.
STAGETALK MAGAZINE.
This was a wonderful ensemble piece with genuine humour, menace and sense of eerie strangeness, over which there was a superbly evocative soundscape by Hannah Bracegirdle.
B24/7.
Well chosen theatrical devices are deployed brilliantly, particularly in the fragmentary and disturbing second half, where the tropes of the schoolroom are given unsettling new life… Driving the action on is a soundtrack evocative of the Australian outback. It starts innocuously, morphing without fanfare into the ever-more-ominous ticking of a clock.
“After doing a lot of work remotely due to COVID, this was a chance to work on a show from the rehearsal room to the stage and I loved every second. I got to really create the sound of the world and I am still proud of it now.“
My Thoughts💭
CAST AND CREATIVES
Eve Periera
Amber
Tanvi Virmani
Nikki
Carlie Diamond
Arielle
Rebecca Hyde
Elizabeth
Louise O’Dowd
Harriet
Directed by
Lowri Mathias
Designed by
Matthew Cassar
Lighting Designed by
Dan Knipe
Stage Managed by
Soph Robinson
DSM
Elsa Gear
Costume Supervision by
Jo Kenney
Ass. Prod Management by
Joe Culpin
Hannah Bracegirdle 