About the show
She’s wearing a yellow dress. A gunshot splits the air. Someone’s phone is recording.
Within hours, the image is everywhere. Some people rage. Some march. Most just scroll. A daughter searches endlessly for her missing mother. Friends risk everything to share the truth. A woman in London clicks ‘donate’. Each small action feeds a revolution no one fully understands. Image of an Unknown Young Woman is a taut, contemporary thriller about what it means to witness suffering in the age of the viral image. What do we owe the strangers we will never meet? When does empathy become exploitation?
This is not a distant conflict. It’s your feed. Your conscience. Your choice.
Margaret Thanos
Margaret Thanos is a Cypriot-Australian director and the Andrew Cameron Fellow (Artist in Residence) at Belvoir Street Theatre. A prolific force in Australian theatre, her 2026 season includes directing The River (STC) and A Mirror (Belvoir). Her portfolio features acclaimed, sell-out seasons of I Hate People; Or Timon of Athens (Sport for Jove), Posh (The Old Fitz), Furious Mattress (25A), and the Australian premiere of A Very Expensive Poison (New Theatre).
A recipient of the Sandra Bates Director’s Award, Margaret has assisted on landmark productions including August: Osage County, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Well Behaved Women (Belvoir), as well as Benefactors and Mr Bailey’s Minder (Ensemble). She is the founder of arts-activism company Queen Hades Productions and a prominent advocate for gender equality and climate awareness with Plan International. Her debut short film, Life Beyond Christine, won Best Short at the Change the Script Film Festival.
– Margaret Thanos
To be advised.
Subject to change during the development of a production.
The Company
Principal Cast (in order of appearance)
Director: Margaret Thanos*
Costume, Props & Set Designer: Danielle Rodriguez
Lighting Designer: Lola Hunt
Sound & Video Designer: Lilly Green
Production Stage Manager: Eloise Tanti
Stage Manager: Emily Stewart
Key
*Guest Artist
** NIDA Staff