A penetrating reimagining of the iconic and timeless Australian novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess
on Valentine’s Day, 1900.
The complex, interwoven narrative charts the subsequent investigation and the event’s far-reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township. Theories abound, long-held secrets are exposed, paranoia and hysteria set in, as in vastly differing ways the lives of our characters are changed for ever.
Tapping into our fear of the unknown, the series explores issues of repression and sexuality, freedom and suffocating respectability, speaks to notions of nationhood and identity, the old
world against the new, nature versus order.
Nature is at the very heart of who we are. But can we ever control it?
C A S T
Natalie Dormer plays Mrs Hester Appleyard
Lily Sullivan plays Miranda Reid
Lola Bessis plays Mademoiselle Diane de Poitiers
Harrison Gilbertson plays The Hon. Michael Fitzhubert
Samara Weaving plays Irma Leopold
Madeleine Madden plays Marion Quade
Inez Curro plays Sara Waybourne
Ruby Rees plays Edith Horton
Yael Stone plays Dora Lumley
Philip Quast plays Arthur
Marcus Graham plays Tomasetti
James Hoare plays Albert Crundall
Don Hany plays Doctor MacKenzie
Mark Coles Smith plays Tom
Anna McGahan plays Miss McCraw
Emily Gruhl plays Minnie
Nicholas Hope plays Colonel Fitzhubert
John Flaus plays Whitehead
Jonny Pasvolsky plays Sgt. Bumpher
Tom Hobbs plays Louis Montpelier
Aaron Glenane plays Reg Lumley
Ros Gentle plays Mrs Fitzhubert
Neil Melville plays Mr Hussey
Sibylla Budd plays Mrs Valange
Kim Gyngell plays Charlie Seymour-Baker
Felix Johnson plays Trooper Nolan
Kate Box plays Mrs Bumpher
Bethany Whitmore plays Blanche Gifford
Mayah Fredes plays Rosamund Swift
Alyssa Tuddenham plays Lily Kenton
Kate Bradford plays Rose Kenton
Juie Nihill plays Mrs Horton
Lee Cormie plays Constable Wilkins
Kaarin Fairfax plays Cook