Twenty years after it took Australian stages by storm, the theatre adaptation returns with some powerful changes to casting, representation and language.
But the residents of 1 Cloud Street in this production look very different to those who appeared on stage in 1999.
The script has been amended, and the show has been cast with actors who, in Lutton's words, feel"contemporary in their cultural backgrounds and diversity".But with thousands of Australians holding fond memories of the original production — and many thousands more being fans of Tim Winton's 1991 novel — the stakes are high.
Opening at the tail end of the World War II, the play follows the Lamb family and the Pickles family as they share a house on Cloud Street, having both suffered their own family trauma. The house they live in is haunted by the ghosts of its previous occupants: Aboriginal girls taken from their families as part of the stolen generations, and the woman who held them there against their will.
The only person aware of the ghosts is Fish — a high-spirited boy from the Lamb family who acquires a brain injury in the opening scene after a near-drowning.
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