Lost Girls
19th January 2007
MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
theatrewhack presents
Lost Girls
February 24th - March 1st 2007, 8pm
BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington
Ticket Prices: Adult $15/ Conc $12/ Addict $10
To Book: 04 802 4175 or book@bats.co.nz
T: He said, “Your mummy knows me”. It looked like mummy’s car.
M: He didn’t look like the type of guy that would do that.
K: I knew mine. He had a van.
Lost Girls is a beautiful, contained, one-hour play. It follows three everyday girls as they go about their everyday
business – not the stuff of drama, you may think – but there is something else present within the play. There is an
underlying tinge of foreboding and uneasiness, the sense that we are heading towards something that we really don’t want
to reach. Yet at the same time we are desperate to see how things turn out.
Lost Girls is the story of three girls who all succumb to the same tragic fate.
Inspired by the true-life abductions of several of New Zealand’s young women, Lost Girls follows T, M and K, (performed
by Kirsty Hamilton, Eve Gordon and Yvette Parsons) through their final days before they disappear forever.
Lost Girls is an original work by a New Zealand writer, Patrick Graham, and was written in response to the growing
number of women reporting domestic violence abuse and rape. For years, Patrick was concerned about the number of young
women that disappeared in New Zealand. What also concerned him was the number of unsolved cases there are.
“You would think that because New Zealand is such a small country someone, somewhere must know what happened? Do we just
turn a blind eye to what is happening?”
He wanted to explore the sense of loss these girls create in people’s lives. How it feels to have someone taken from you
at an early age. The characters are very loosely based on well-known murder victims to give them a familiarity and
universality. These girls could be your sister, cousin or your next-door neighbour.
Lost Girls will be directed by Thomas Sainsbury, who started his creative career with playwrighting and has had three
plays workshopped through Playmarket’s Young Playwright competition.
ENDS