Lights Out Nellie Martin

by Wendy Richardson

10th - 25th April 2015

  • Written in Wendy Richardson's unique style, the action of the play moves from the Martin house on Cliff Road Wollongong to the blitz in London and an island in Malaysia. Utilising archival footage from newsreels, photographs and radio broadcasts, the play tells the tale of women in war time on the home front and includes the massacre of Australian nurses by the Japanese. The play also contains music from the period.

    There are plenty of laughs, tears and insights into life in Wollongong for women during the war, with insights into how the war affected us as a nation and changed the way we thought of ourselves forever.

  • Director: Steen
    Choreographer: Flower Curran
    Stage Manager: Adele Masters
    Technical: Adele Masters & Troy McMullan
    Front of House: Kevin Caucher & Elysia Viles

  • Nellie Martin - Linda Campbell
    Madeleine Martin - Gillian Fae Meers
    Alice Martin - Alana Blakeney
    Shadow Cast - Aviva Sheb’a, Inga Silfr Jon, Hayley Kehoe, Hailey Wood & Steven Hall
    Voice Overs - Aviva Sheb’a, Dave Barranquero, Toni-Lea Porter, Samuel Baylis & Steen