'Picnic at Hanging Rock' Stage Manager Decodes Mystery

The article can be found: here.

The main points of the article about a play based on the book include:

The mystery remains unsolved.

Different things figuring into what happened including the concept of a possible crime, secret desires and the inability of those in charge to handle everything properly.

Audience members had several explanations for what could have happened to the girls including some natural force, abduction by aborigines or something else.

Some of the audience were confused by Ms. Appleyard's death.

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