“It’s pretty great it’s going on at all. I just feel relieved and blessed, me not being able to get there is what it is,” says Cerini, who has been catching rehearsals online. “I’m on Zoom and I’d turn my camera off and mute myself and just sit there listening. And [Weaving and Blair] would be doing stuff and I’d be beside myself, just gobsmacked. They’re so good and it’s thrilling to see them.”

The story of the unsolved Wonnangatta murders has been part of the folklore of Victoria’s High Country almost since the bodies of Jim Barclay and John Bamford were discovered in 1918. Cerini had been aware of the story ever since he was a little boy, but it wasn’t until about five years ago, when he was driving through Gippsland and passed a sign pointing to the town of Wonnangatta that he began to think about the unsolved mystery again.

What he discovered was a true story that lent itself to drama - starting when Harry Smith, played by Weaving, arrives at the home of his friend Jim Barclay to find two words are written on the door: “Home tonight”. The only problem is that Barclay never returns.

“There’s some really weird stuff,” says Cerini. “The first body, the dog was licking it's skull. I didn’t make that up. The first body in the creek was wrapped in a red blanket, I didn’t make that up. The play is full of facts and it’s wild. People are going to go, ‘That’s ridiculous, good one Angus.’ But it’s sort of great.”

In the meantime, Cerini has his garlic to keep him busy. He’s just put in 2000 bulbs, but has plans for a mini-empire. “Hopefully the plan is I grow enough garlic, because you don’t make money off plays usually in a year, especially not when there’s a pandemic, so that’s my little plan.”

Wonnangatta is at Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, from September 21-October 31.