It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club – and that means heady mix of grog, drugs and fun. But by morning a young girl is dead – gang-raped and bludgeoned to death. Who is responsible? The fallout provokes the Blackrock community to implode as battle lines are drawn, in a story inspired by true events.

A stirring, gritty glance at what some people will do in the name of mateship, Blackrock zeroes in on the nature of violence and loyalty in Australian surf culture.

Written by Academy Award nominee Nick Enright and premiered by the Sydney Theatre Company in 1995, Blackrock returns to the stage at Gardens Theatre, featuring QUT’s final year Actors.