Picnic at Hanging Rock

About Joan Lindsay

Joan Lindsay (18961984) was an Australian novelist playwright essayist and artist best known for her 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock. She was born Melbourne Australia where she went to school at Clyde Girls Grammar in East St Kilda. She knew and loved the Macedon district the setting for Picnic at Hanging Rock from early childhood. She studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School Melbourne and as well as her career as a novelist exhibited watercolour and oil paintings throughout her lifetime. Her other novels included Through Darkest Pondelayo and Time Without Clocks. Picnic at Hanging Rock was published in 1967 to critical acclaim and was adapted into a film of the same name in 1975 directed by Peter Weir. The book continues to be considered one of the most important Australian novels of all time. In 1922 in London Joan married Sir Daryl Lindsay. The Lindsays travelled together in Europe and the USA Daryl with his paints and Joan with her typewriter. Sir Daryl died in 1976. Joan lived at their country home on the Mornington Peninsula Mulberry Hill Victoria Australia. She died in December 1984. Tom Wright is an Australian theatre writer mostly known for his adaptations and translations. He was born and educated in Melbourne. He was a member of Barrie Kosky's Gilgul Theatre in the 1990s was Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company 20042012 and is currently Associate Artist at Belvoir Sydney. His plays and adaptations include Picnic at Hanging Rock A Journal of the Plague Year The Caucasian Chalk Circle Ubu This Is a True Story Lorilei Babes in the Wood Tense Dave The Odyssey The Lost Echo Criminology (with Lally Katz) Tales from the Vienna Woods The Women of Troy The War of the Roses The Duel Baal Optimism Oresteia On the Misconception of Oedipus The Histrionic and Black Diggers.