Picnic at Hanging Rock

Having spent time living in Creswick, the birthplace of the Lindsays; perhaps Australia’s best known art family. I discovered that Sir Daryl Lindsay (1889-1976) and Lady Joan Lindsay (1896–1984) ashes are interred in the local cemetery.

Joan Lindsay was the author who wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock which was published in 1967.  The novel was developed in a movie in 1975, directed by Peter Weir.

More than 40 years after the film’s release Tom Wright has adapted the story for the stage.

Directed by Matthew Lutton.  The cast includes Harriett Gordon-Anderson, Arielle Gray, Amber McMahon, Elizabeth Nabben and Nikki Shiels.

Find out if the mystery from Valentine’s Day in 1900 will be solved where three schoolgirls and a teacher vanished.

A co-production presented by the Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company. It’s currently being staged at the Malthouse Theatre until 20 March.

After the Melbourne season, the play will be performed at the State Theatre Centre of WA in Perth from 1 to 17 April.

Images supplied.  Photos by Pia Johnson.

Dita Von Teese – Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour

Every generation have their style icons from Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, one of today’s style icons is Dita Von Teese.

As an international burlesque dancer, model, costumedesigner, entreprenuer and actress.  As an icon to women she’s appeared on magazine covers and runaways. She worked with Jean Paul Gaultier, Moschino, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton to name a few. Some of her enterpreneurial ventures include perfumes, lingerie, gloves and clothes.

Dita is also an author having previously published Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and The Art of the Teese and Dita: Striptease, her third publication Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour has recently been released.

This 400 paged book is full of illustrations and photographs which takes you through Dita’s do-it-yourself beauty ethos without the glamour squad.  From nutrition and exercise guidance, skincare, techniques from creating hairstyles and make up looks.

Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour is a collaboration with Rose Apodoca.

Available in hardcover through Harper Collins Publishers Australia.