Falling Petals

Something strange is happening in the country town of Hollow. When a syndrome which seems to strike only at the young begins to kill off the town’s children, authorities quarantine the rural community. Three final year school students — Tania, Phil and Sally — are getting ready to move on, but to what and to where? Success in economics and accounting exams may be the only passport out of a place which goes out of its way to promise them little.

“Assaulting, confronting, surreal — Ben Ellis’s writing is a mix of humour, anger and insight… The new Brutalism comes to Australia… a vivid shock to the nervous system of contemporary theatre.” — Comments from Wal Cherry Award judges.

As the mysterious outbreak reaches epidemic proportions, friendship and alliances are stretched to breaking point, while choices between life and death become simultaneously fantastical and apocalyptic. Part sci-fi, part satire, Falling Petals is a darkly humorous fable about the consequences of a culture of disposable youth.

Box Office Hours: 45 minutes prior to curtain time

Appropriate For Ages: 16 and over