Aussie writers have long been obsessed with the fact that, in Australia, it's all too easy to vanish. There's just so much empty space. The latest to have taken on this concept is playwright Angela Betzien, Patrick White Playwrights' Fellow, at the Sydney Theatre Company.
She's created a super-tense crime thriller titled The Hanging, focused on the disappearance of two Melbourne girls from a privileged private school. The only two characters to know anything about what happened are their 14-year-old best friend and her English teacher. But neither of them is too keen on talking. As the mystery gets deeper, the girls' respected families must face darker and darker truths.
At the production's helm is STC resident, Sarah Goodes (Disgraced), who's put together a cracking cast, featuring Luke Carroll (Battle of Waterloo), Ashleigh Cummings (Channel Ten's Puberty Blues) and Genevieve Lemon (Hay Fever).