Castlemaine Theatre Co presents Camp Darwin

Next date: Friday, 15 May 2026 | 07:30 PM to 10:00 PM

A hundred and fifty Australian Citizens and Residents return by a Government aided Qantas flight to Darwin after having been stuck in India for over a year. They are taken to the Howard Springs Quarantine Facility in Darwin, Northern Territory. At the Quarantine Centre we meet six of them, Raminder and Dalip, both of Indian origin, Peter Xu, a Chinese Australian and Jack, Larry and Chris, Australians of Anglo-Saxon heritage. The gruelling testing regime, the surveillance systems and presence of Cops and Guards, the intimacy between strangers, sporadic explosions of humour, of dance, of laughter, the moments of great stress, anger and breakdown, all lead the drama to its climax when on the last day one of the six men tests positive.