Mosquitoes by Z-PAC Theatre Company
in Hervey Bay, Queensland

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Performances

  • 2026 May 1 Friday 7:00 PM
  • 2026 May 2 Saturday 7:00 PM
  • 2026 May 3 Sunday 2:00 PM
  • 2026 May 8 Friday 7:00 PM
  • 2026 May 9 Saturday 7:00 PM
  • 2026 May 10 Sunday 2:00 PM
  • 2026 May 15 Friday 7:00 PM
  • 2026 May 16 Saturday 7:00 PM
  • 2026 May 17 Sunday 2:00 PM

Auditions

  • 2026 Jan 11 Sunday

What To Know About This Production

Alice is a brilliant physicist at CERN, preparing for the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider—a machine designed to unlock the very building blocks of the universe.

Her sister, Jenny, lives in Luton, navigating a world of online health scares , personal grief, and a deep-seated suspicion of the "experts" Alice trusts .

As the world's scientists prepare to collide particles at unimaginable speeds, the two sisters are sent on a collision course of their own. Mosquitoes smashes together the largest questions of cosmology with the most intimate atoms of a family in crisis.

This gripping and sharp-witted drama by Lucy Kirkwood explores the "pull of viral ideas" , the profound nature of grief, and the fragile, chaotic forces that bind a family together. In a world where 'fact' and 'feeling' are at war, what gives our lives meaning, and who can we truly believe?

Auditions For Mosquitoes

Auditions are Past

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Cast List For Mosquitoes

Characters

  • ALICE - A brilliant, highly logical physicist at CERN, deeply immersed in her work on the Large Hadron Collider. She is the sister of JENNY and the mother of LUKE. She struggles to balance her demanding career with the emotional needs of her family, preferring facts over feelings.
  • JENNY - ALICE's younger sister, living in Luton. She is emotional, anxious, and operates on instinct and fear, which often puts her in direct conflict with ALICE . She is grieving the death of her young daughter, Amy, for which she feels responsible after refusing to give her the MMR vaccine.
  • THE BOSON - A mysterious, charismatic, and powerful figure who functions as the play's narrator, philosopher, and stage-manager. He breaks the fourth wall, delivers monologues about the laws of the universe and chaos , and facilitates the play's non-linear scene changes.
  • LUKE - ALICE's teenage son, aged sixteen to seventeen. He is intelligent, withdrawn, and deeply unhappy, feeling ignored by his mother and abandoned by his father. He is bullied at his school in Geneva and his frustration manifests in computer hacking.
  • KAREN - ALICE and JENNY's mother. She is an elderly, sharp-witted, and formidable woman who was a gifted scientist in her own right . She is now facing the onset of dementia, including memory loss and incontinence , and is terrified of losing her independence.
  • NATALIE - A sixteen-year-old English girl at LUKE's school in Geneva. She initially befriends LUKE but is also desperate to fit in with the popular crowd. She ultimately participates in a cruel act of cyberbullying against him
  • HENRI - ALICE's new boyfriend in Geneva. He is a kind and stable Swiss scientist working for the World Health Organisation . He is a Quaker and a recovering alcoholic. French accent.
  • GAVRIELLA BASTIANELLI - An Italian scientist who is ALICE's colleague and partner in her working group at CERN.
  • JOURNALIST - A TV journalist (named Lara Gallagher in the script) who reports live from the ATLAS control room on the day the LHC is first switched on.
  • POLICEWOMAN - The Swiss police officer who is present with JENNY in the interview room following the incident at CERN.
  • FRENCH SCIENTIST - A scientist in the ATLAS control room with several specific lines of dialogue in French
  • CAMERAMAN - The silent colleague of the JOURNALIST in the ATLAS control room scene.
  • LYN EVANS - A voice-only role. The Welsh-lilted voice of the LHC operations leader who gives the countdown to activate the first beam. This is a prerecorded role.
  • ENSEMBLE/SCIENTISTS - An ensemble group. They appear in the chaotic ATLAS control room scene and again as the future scientists in 'THE LAST EXPERIMENT'. This group will be essential for building the world and energy of the

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