This year’s Senior Production is Letters to Lindy. This contemporary Australian work by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine (Ladies Day, Parramatta Girls) explores the public’s relationship with one of Australia’s most iconic figures.

The court case captivated a nation. A mother accused of murdering her child, her claim – that the baby was taken by a dingo – denied and discredited by zealous police and a flawed legal system. The media circus, the rumours, the nation’s prejudices laid bare; and in the eye of the storm: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.

Over three decades, from baby Azaria’s death to the final coroner’s report, the public’s fascination with Lindy seldom waned. The National Library holds a collection of more than 20,000 letters to Lindy. From sympathy to abuse, from marriage proposals to death threats, the correspondence traverses the gamut of responses to Lindy’s story.

Letters to Lindy draws on this correspondence and interviews with Lindy herself. It is an enthralling, revealing, and long overdue dialogue between Lindy and the nation; a portrait of the wisdom and resilience of a grieving mother. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton explained that it is “The most powerful thing that has been done on my story, and the most true to what I lived through.”

Our production features twelve accomplished VCE students playing multiple roles on stage. The production team consists of the entire VCE Theatre Studies class, who have been working in the areas of set, properties, costume, lighting, sound and makeup design, as well as acting and direction. The cast and production team have been hard at work since the first week in February to bring this fascinating story to life. It is certainly not to be missed.

Tickets can be booked here.

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Details are as follows:

Dorothy Pizzey Hall – St Catherine’s School

6.30pm, Thursday 6 May

6.30pm, Friday 7 May

2.30pm, Saturday 8 May

We hope to see you there!