The Lighthouse Girl Saga: Live In-Cinema - Theatre 180 Production

The Lighthouse Girl Saga is a sweeping story of ordinary people living in extraordinary times: a tale of courage, resilience, hope and love.

When the world is dark with war, courage and heart light the way home.

From THEATRE 180, the company that brought you A Fortunate Life and SYDNEY II: Lost and Found, comes another powerful fusion of live theatre and cinema. The Lighthouse Girl Saga is a sweeping story of ordinary people living in extraordinary times: a tale of courage, resilience, hope and love.

A bold adaptation by two of WA’s leading and award-winning playwrights, Jenny Davis OAM and Hellie Turner, this epic production blends four award-winning novels by Western Australian writer, Dianne Wolfer, Lighthouse Girl, Light Horse Boy, In the Lamplight and The Last Light Horse, into the most compelling theatrical event of our times.

Striking visuals, evocative sound and innovative staging transport the audience with the First AIF convoy as it embarks from King George Sound and farewells Australia from the beacon of the lighthouse at Breaksea Island, to the hell of Gallipoli, the mud in the trenches at the Western Front, a nurse’s compassion in rural England and peaceful horizons in country Victoria. Journey with Fay, Charlie, Jim, Rose and Sandy, the only warhorse to return to Australia of the 136,000 sent to war, across seas and through the mire of war as their intersecting stories culminate in the forging of the ANZAC spirit and a love that conquers all.

Screening at Windsor Cinema (November/December) and Luna Leederville (May)