Being a mother of young children, she felt for the parents of the three boys who died of exposure after wandering from their home in search of goats, back in 1867.

The story also triggered another part of Megan – the part that writes theatre scripts.

So, she sat down and wrote a compelling play about the emotional effects that permeated Daylesford at the time.

The 150^th anniversary of the shocking and traumatising event will be June 30 next year.

Megan plans to hold the opening night of the performance of her play at Daylesford Town Hall that very night.

The Ballarat resident has just started her own theatre company, Tripwire Theatre Inc, to create opportunities for emerging scriptwriters.

Megan has been working with Daylesford residents to find out more about the lost children, including the caretaker of the Lost Children’s Monument.

“I found out about the story just because there’s a bush walk around where they went. I started to look into the story,” Megan said.

“Being a young mother at the time, I became really connected to the story.

“I started to write, with my own emotional response to the story.”

Megan said the story wasn’t a re-enactment as much as an interpretation.

“The piece I’ve written is the human story and the underlying currents of the human relationships surrounding the event,” she said.

Tripwire has already started enjoying success, such as with its recent production The Let-Down Reflex.

The Let-Down Reflext was performed in Bendigo, Anglesea and Kyneton and Ballarat

The organisation is also in the midst of producing Travels With my Black Dog, which is a play about a man travelling in a caravan with his black dog, played by a woman, and a bad case of depression.

Megan is currently looking for Daylesford theatre-makers to be part of Hollow, her script based on the lost children.

For more information or to contact Megan, visit the Tripwire website at www.tripwire.org.au