That's the adaption the Launceston Players will present at the Earl Arts Centre, from September 13 to 22.

Each of the all-female cast of five play several roles - up to 11 characters, and both male and female - and each role is played by several different actors throughout the play.

Actor Bindy Stephens said it's the kind of opportunity thespians dream about.

"I love the script: it's give actors the opportunity you've been dying for, which is to analyse really deep text," she said.

"The adaption is really interesting - it has that sense of foreboding and mystery.

"I think it'll be a great play for not only theatre-lovers but people of that generation who grew up watching Picnic at Hanging Rock."

Director Peter Hammond say the production was a great complement to the film, but was closer to the book in its level of weirdness.

"There's a complete mixture of time," he said.

"[The actors] play contemporary, modern-day schoolgirls telling us the story of something that happened in the 1900s.

"By the end time we don't know what timeframe we're in - time blends and it concertinas in on itself."

Tickets cost $42.00 adults, $38.00 concession, $30 under 16, through theatrenorth.com.au or on the door an hour beforehand.

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