Name: Lightning Ridge
Start: 2026-02-23T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-23T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Lyra / ArtSpace

by Catherine Wheels for ages 8+ and their families
About this Event

Lightning Ridge

Monday 23 February 2026 at 18:00

Location: Lyra / ArtSpace

12 year-old Ashmol lives in the Australian outback with his mum, dad and his little sister Kellyanne and her two invisible friends Pobby and Dingan.One day, Pobby and Dingan disappear. At first Ashmol is happy that the imaginary friends are out of his life, but Kellyanne becomes sick. The longer Pobby and Dingan are lost, the sicker Kellyanne becomes. Finally, Ashmol decides that there is only one thing to do: he must find Pobby and Dingan.Lightning Ridge is a heart breaking and beautiful story about the possibility of dreams, about a community coming together, the preciousness of hope and how, sometimes, we have to believe in the impossible.Winner of the CATS award for Best Performance for Young Children and Young People and Gill Robertson won the Outstanding Performance awardA Catherine Wheels show created by Gill Robertson, Shona Reppe, Daniel Padden and Rob Evans. Adapted from the book Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice.