Blackrock
MCShowroom
Prahran
MCShowroom,
L1/50 Clifton St
Prahran, Victoria 3181
Prahran, Victoria 3181
Date
25 Jun –
28 Jun
About the Show
“One mistake. One life. One community torn apart.”
It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead raped by three boys and bashed with a rock.
Who is responsible? The boy? The girl? Or the whole town.
Blackrock, playwright Nick Enright’s play about a teen party which culminates with a brutal rape and murder on the beach, was deeply disturbing when it was written 30 years ago. Sadly many of the themes, which swirl around the narrative after the tragic event, still resonant today as Australia struggles with issues of domestic abuse, respect and gender equality.
Blackrock was originally adapted from a 45-minute piece by Enright, A Property of the Clan, that was inspired by the sexual assault and murder of 14-year-old Leigh Reannea Mears, near Newcastle in 1989. The award-winning play premiered in 1995, became a film in 1997, and was critically acclaimed.
Lunatix presents this intimate and strongly shaped human drama focusing in on the social forces behind the male impulse to violence and the community’s response in the aftermath, which are actively relevant in today society.
Featuring a strong cast of performers including, Fletcher Von Arx, Bailey Griffiths, Sabrina Hault, Olivia Mitchell, Javier Lumsden, James Parker, Samuel John, Isabel Dickson, Charlotte Palmer, Cassandra Hart, Hayley Michaels and Matt Young.
For more information regarding the femicide epidemic in Australia: https://australianfemicidewatch.org
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“One mistake. One life. One community torn apart.”
It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead raped by three boys and bashed with a rock.
Who is responsible? The boy? The girl? Or the whole town.
Blackrock, playwright Nick Enright’s play about a teen party which culminates with a brutal rape and murder on the beach, was deeply disturbing when it was written 30 years ago. Sadly many of the themes, which swirl around the narrative after the tragic event, still resonant today as Australia struggles with issues of domestic abuse, respect and gender equality.
Blackrock was originally adapted from a 45-minute piece by Enright, A Property of the Clan, that was inspired by the sexual assault and murder of 14-year-old Leigh Reannea Mears, near Newcastle in 1989. The award-winning play premiered in 1995, became a film in 1997, and was critically acclaimed.
Lunatix presents this intimate and strongly shaped human drama focusing in on the social forces behind the male impulse to violence and the community’s response in the aftermath, which are actively relevant in today society.
Featuring a strong cast of performers including, Fletcher Von Arx, Bailey Griffiths, Sabrina Hault, Olivia Mitchell, Javier Lumsden, James Parker, Samuel John, Isabel Dickson, Charlotte Palmer, Cassandra Hart, Hayley Michaels and Matt Young.
For more information regarding the femicide epidemic in Australia: https://australianfemicidewatch.org
Date
25 Jun
28 Jun
About the Show
“One mistake. One life. One community torn apart.”
It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead raped by three boys and bashed with a rock.
Who is responsible? The boy? The girl? Or the whole town.
Blackrock, playwright Nick Enright’s play about a teen party which culminates with a brutal rape and murder on the beach, was deeply disturbing when it was written 30 years ago. Sadly many of the themes, which swirl around the narrative after the tragic event, still resonant today as Australia struggles with issues of domestic abuse, respect and gender equality.
Blackrock was originally adapted from a 45-minute piece by Enright, A Property of the Clan, that was inspired by the sexual assault and murder of 14-year-old Leigh Reannea Mears, near Newcastle in 1989. The award-winning play premiered in 1995, became a film in 1997, and was critically acclaimed.
Lunatix presents this intimate and strongly shaped human drama focusing in on the social forces behind the male impulse to violence and the community’s response in the aftermath, which are actively relevant in today society.
Featuring a strong cast of performers including, Fletcher Von Arx, Bailey Griffiths, Sabrina Hault, Olivia Mitchell, Javier Lumsden, James Parker, Samuel John, Isabel Dickson, Charlotte Palmer, Cassandra Hart, Hayley Michaels and Matt Young.
For more information regarding the femicide epidemic in Australia: https://australianfemicidewatch.org
Read More
“One mistake. One life. One community torn apart.”
It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead raped by three boys and bashed with a rock.
Who is responsible? The boy? The girl? Or the whole town.
Blackrock, playwright Nick Enright’s play about a teen party which culminates with a brutal rape and murder on the beach, was deeply disturbing when it was written 30 years ago. Sadly many of the themes, which swirl around the narrative after the tragic event, still resonant today as Australia struggles with issues of domestic abuse, respect and gender equality.
Blackrock was originally adapted from a 45-minute piece by Enright, A Property of the Clan, that was inspired by the sexual assault and murder of 14-year-old Leigh Reannea Mears, near Newcastle in 1989. The award-winning play premiered in 1995, became a film in 1997, and was critically acclaimed.
Lunatix presents this intimate and strongly shaped human drama focusing in on the social forces behind the male impulse to violence and the community’s response in the aftermath, which are actively relevant in today society.
Featuring a strong cast of performers including, Fletcher Von Arx, Bailey Griffiths, Sabrina Hault, Olivia Mitchell, Javier Lumsden, James Parker, Samuel John, Isabel Dickson, Charlotte Palmer, Cassandra Hart, Hayley Michaels and Matt Young.
For more information regarding the femicide epidemic in Australia: https://australianfemicidewatch.org
Date
25 Jun
28 Jun
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