Directed by Peter Weir and based on a novel by Australian writer Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is the story of a group of schoolgirls who head to an Australian landmark for a picnic ...

Kirsty Marillier (left) and Olivia DeJonge star in Picnic at Hanging Rock for the Sydney Theatre Company. Credit: Louise Kennerley OK, let’s get this out of the way first. Yes, there will be ...

Until Picnic at Hanging Rock, of course. Lindsay’s extraordinary success with this novel – published in 1967 when she was 71 and launched, as it happens, by former prime minister Robert ...

Few stories are more firmly ingrained in Australian culture than Picnic at Hanging Rock, the tale of three schoolgirls and a teacher from a prestigious college who go missing in the bush in 1900.