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Picnic at Hanging Rock, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

by David Kettle

Terror of the brutal rawness of nature in Malthouse Theatre's masterful stage adaptationWe probably think we know the story. From Peter Weir's cult 1975 film, or even from the original 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay. An excitable gaggle of Australian schoolgirls from an uptight, English-run boarding school take a trip to sinister volcanic Hanging Rock, where four vanish " three students, one teacher " leaving no clu…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 2:42am on January 19, 2017