LOST VOICES PRESENTS: THE AMAZING LUCAS GIRLS at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute

The Amazing Lucas Girls is a beautiful story of women courageously and caringly banding together in adversity. This play will be coming straight from its season at The Sydney Theatre Company wharf 2 in the Herstory Festival.

After sellout audiences of Forgotten (based on the Parramatta female convict rebellion) and Sivvy Plath’s Birthday Present (on the life of the iconic second wave feminist) by acclaimed playwright Cate Whittaker, Lost Voices Australia Inc NFP presents Whittaker’s new Australian play on the true events of the Ballarat Lucas factory girls in WWI led by the indefatigable, irrepressible, hilarious Tilly Thompson.

As Tilly with the rest of Ballarat proudly cheers off its men to war, her younger sister Clara despairs, and desperately tries to stop her fiancé Wilf and brother Frank following. Sadly, her fears are founded as Ballarat rapidly turns black at the death knell of the Telegram Boy’s bicycle bell. When war is hungry for more men and a conscription referendum is called, the Lucas Girls under Clara’s courageous leadership make their mark. But it’s older sister Tilly’s compassion for her distraught, disintegrating town that directs the girls into the most amazing achievement.

This inspirational tale of ordinary women in the too often forgotten home-front’s darkest days doing extraordinary things to bring hope, when no hope seems possible.

Director/Writer Cate Whittaker
Ass. Director Flynn Barnard
Lighting Designer Mehran Mortezaei
Costumes Susan Cavanagh Genesian

With
Amy Joyce as Clara
Jo Booth as Tilly
Liz Grindley as Mildred
Flynn Barnard as Wilf, Walker
Andrea Blight as Mary. Lady Sommers
Gerry Mullaly as Jimmy, Stanley
Casey Martin as Mavis, Vida Goldstein
Nicholas Papademetriou as Mayor. Corporal Stevens

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