By Hellie Turner. A Rio Tinto Black Swan co-commission, in association with Albany Entertainment Centre. Black Swan State Theatre Company. Directed by Stuart Halusz. Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia. 28 Apr - 14 May, 2017
Black Swan State Theatre Company's world premiere of The Lighthouse Girl by Hellie Turner is adapted from the Dianne Wolfer books Lighthouse Girl and Light Horse Boy, and is a beautiful telling of a lovely, if sad, Australian First World War story.
Set on a single set, an inspired design by Lawrie Cullen Tait - a rocky outcrop that is predominantly the barren Breaksea Island - but with the assistance of lighting designed by Joe Lui and sound by Brett Smith, it becomes the lighthouse cottage, rural Victoria, Egypt and Anzac Cove.