The Reunion

Near Dunolly, April 1986. Maggie, Lucy and Kyle return to an isolated bush campsite and abandoned gold mine ten years after events that changed their lives. What begins as an uneasy reunion filled with nostalgia and remembered friendship gradually exposes resentment, trauma and secrets that have never been resolved. Cut off from the safety of the outside world, the three are forced to confront competing versions of their shared past—and the danger still buried within it. The Reunion is a tense psychological drama about memory, betrayal, guilt and the destructive consequences of believing that the past can remain hidden forever.

The Reunion explores friendship, betrayal, repression, revenge and the destructive power of unresolved history. It examines manipulation, psychological control, sexuality, humiliation and the difference between shared memories and concealed truths. As Maggie, Lucy and Kyle revisit their school years, nostalgia gives way to fear. The play asks how well we truly know the people closest to us—and what happens when resentment is allowed to grow unchecked for a decade.

A dark psychological thriller presented through a series of escalating scenes at an isolated outdoor location. Former school friends Maggie, Lucy and Kyle gather for a Full Moon Ritual, sharing alcohol, cannabis, intimate behaviour and memories of their youth. The initially playful reunion gradually becomes unsettling as old tensions and hidden motives emerge. By dawn, Maggie has restrained her companions with cable ties and reveals that she has prepared the location and her escape route for ten years. Dark comedy, colloquial dialogue and psychological horror drive the action towards violence and a devastating revelation.

The Reunion is an Australian psychological thriller about three former school friends meeting ten years after their graduation. The action takes place at an isolated outdoor ritual site near a gate, bushland path and former gold mine. References to school life, competitive hockey and Lucy playing at state level from 1979 help establish the characters’ shared history. The remote setting draws upon Australia’s gold-mining landscape, transforming a place associated with buried riches into one where resentment, betrayal and dangerous secrets have been buried instead. The characters, Full Moon Ritual and central revenge story are fictional. The play was presented at the MC Showroom in Prahran in September 2022.

Written by Marty MonStar in 2021, The Reunion has been presented at The MC Showroom in Melbourne. The play is structured around three principal female performers, with two small telephone roles suitable for voiceover or doubling. Its concentrated cast and confined second-half setting make it suitable for independent theatre, intimate venues and festival programming.

A flexible campsite and abandoned-mine setting. Atmospheric lighting, darkness and sound effects are important for suspense and changing locations.

Recommended for mature audiences only.

Contains extreme coarse language, alcohol consumption, recreational cannabis use, partial nudity, sexualised behaviour and same-sex kissing. The play also depicts kidnapping, physical restraint, psychological abuse, humiliation, threats involving a knife, stabbing, blood and serious injury. It explores revenge, trauma and disturbing psychopathic behaviour.