The Dictionary of Lost Words at Merrigong Theatre Company
Dates: 5/29/2025 - 6/7/2025
📍 Theatre: Merrigong Theatre Company
Merrigong Theatre Company
32 Burelli Street
WOL, New South Wales 2500
Phone: 02 4224 5999
Tickets: $84-$119
Merrigong Theatre Company presents Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre for a special two-week season from 29 May to 7 June 2025.
The Dictionary of Lost Words is a sweeping historical tale that follows a young woman, Esme, as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian England.
It’s 1886, and the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled. Young Esme Nicoll has a front row seat. Well, she’s hiding under the sorting table, anyway. As her father and his male colleagues decide which words stay and which go, Esme collects the discarded scraps to compile her own radical, magical dictionary.
News About The Dictionary of Lost Words at Merrigong Theatre Company
THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS Comes to Wollongong
May 20, 2025 Merrigong Theatre Company will present Verity Laughton’s smash-hit stage adaptation of Australian author Pip Williams’ award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words.
THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS Will Embark on Australian Tour
February 10, 2025 Sydney Theatre Company and State Theatre Company South Australia’s adaptation of The Dictionary of Lost Words will play a strictly limited encore season at STC’s Roslyn Packer Theatre before embarking on tour.About the Theatre
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