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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:19700101T100000
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SUMMARY:Mud and Blood - WWI play by Meg McNena directed by Alice Bishop - Special Performance
DESCRIPTION:Mud and Blood\, Meg McNena’s compelling 80-minute\, six-actor play\, is about distinguished Australian general\, Harold ‘Pompey’ Elliott\, who led the Essendon Rifles and took most of them to WWI. \n \nThe tenacity of Australian men and women is shown in battle and at home. Timing in 2018 with Anzac and Armistice centenaries adds impact. Set 1914-1921\, it shows how Pompey Elliott and a soldier’s mother deal with his vow to look after ‘his boys’ in war as if they were his own. This vow\, driving the play’s drama\, was made at a farewell to troops a century ago at Essendon Town Hall\, now the Clocktower Centre\, where Mud and Blood will be centre-stage on Fri 31 August. Women’s efforts and struggles are also pivotal . Please share in your networks and newsletter this opportunity to see a story about local heroes by a Moonee Ponds writer. \nA brilliant cast and skilled production team is powerfully directed by Alice Bishop\, who has been nominated for a Green Room Award for best director. Writer and producer\, Meg McNena\, has an Amnesty International Award and others for writing; this is her sixth play staged. Darren Mort\, a lawyer like Pompey\,plays his complex character masterfully. Humour and songs intone the era. \nMud and Blood‚Äôs Melbourne premiere is at the Clocktower Centre\, Moonee Ponds at 12 noon on Friday 31 August with a Q&A and talk by Ross McMullin\, awarded historian\, biographer and author of two books on Pompey Elliott (included in the matinee price) and opening night is 8pm 31 August. \nElliott trained youth in the Essendon Rifles militia; three units of his 7th Battalion came from the Northern suburbs and one from the Western suburbs; they trained at Broadmeadows and went with him to Gallipoli\, Lone Pine\, Fromelles and trenches of The Somme\, where Elliott turned the outcome of WWI in the Allies favour. Pompey inspires as husband\, father\, brother\, friend\, leader\, veteran and senator – the soldier before and after war; the stalwart wife keeps the family going; the cost for Pompey in making this heartfelt but impossible promise and returning to unveil honour boards and memorials. \nWe want to share this significant history of world-changing times for the newly declared nation of Australia and to increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder. \nHere is the vox pop from our successful preview in Charlton\, where Pompey was born. \nClick here for more information
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/mud-and-blood-wwi-play-by-meg-mcnena-directed-by-alice-bishop-special-performance/
LOCATION:NSW
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SUMMARY:Life on the battlefields… more than 90 years on
DESCRIPTION:International speaker Charlotte Descamps will present a talk dealing with the ‚Äúsilent witnesses‚Äù to the Great War at Varlet Farm\, Poelkapelle\, Belgium. The Farm is situated in what was the centre of the battlefields of Third Ypres. \nWhere: Oakleigh Bowling Club\, corner of Drummond and Logie Streets\, Oakleigh. \nWhen: Sunday 3 June\, 2012 at 2pm. \nRefreshments available at the bar. \nFor bookings \nEmail gobbi.helen@gmail.com or \nPhone 0403 195 607 by 29 May\, 2012. \nSponsored by the Victorian branch of the Military Historical Society of Australia. \nGold coin donations to the Society will be welcomed. \n \nCharlotte Descamps \nSynopsis ‚ÄúLife on the Battlefields 94 years later‚Äù \nLocating Varlet Farm in the Salient \nVarlet Farm is situated¬† in the centre of the battlefields of Third Ypres\, ¬†part of the Salient which came to shape at the end of 1914. It was end 1914/beginning 1915 that the war changed face : from having been a war on the move\, it changed to a war of stalemate. Eventually 5 major battles were to be fought in the Salient \nFinding silent witnesses of war: \nToday\, there are hardly any visible signs of the Great War\, other than the many cemeteries and memorials\, to explain to what extend the Salient was destroyed. Yet\, year after year\, evidence of that conflict is being found. \nEven now\, human remains are still being unearthed. Modern technology is being applied in an attempt to identify those remains. A set procedure results in the fact that those soldiers are being put to the their final resting place with military honour. DNA research has let to several positive identifications over the last years \n  \nIron harvest \nOrdnance is part of daily life for those working in the soil : farmers\, contractors\, constructors\, everyone is aware of the fact that they will come across life ammunition. An average of over 200 tons of ammunition is still being collected every year. A heritage with which has to be dealt with in the appropriate way. High explosive shells\, shrapnel shells\, trench mortars\, hand- and rifle grenades\, toxic ammunition : it is all part of the iron harvest in the Salient \nDealing with the legacy \nThe Belgian bomb disposal squad has a high reputation. Today they are being send out throughout the world to clean up more recent battlefields. A lot of their experience goes back to the battlefields of the Great War : they have specialised knowledge how to dismantle all different types of shells. The toxic ones being the most dangerous ones around here. \nHuman suffering almost a century later \nYear after year\, the war still causes victims on the battlefields : private collectors messing around with shells\, children picking up a hand grenade\, farmers being confronted with an explosion while working the fields. Rules are being set to reduce the risks to a minimum. \nA story that continues \nWorking in the soil reveals more of the history of this area : helmets\, rifles\, rum jars\, badges\, buckles\, silent pickets etc\,¬† which are still being found are revealing more information. Occasionally ammunition supplies\, ammunition dumps or a tunnel are being discovered as well. Research in archives gives information on dugouts which are still down deep Flanders Fields today. \nCV \n– Born 19/09/1958 in Poperinge\, Belgium\n– started up B&B Varlet Farm\, specialised for guests having an interest in the Great War\, in 1998. One of the first B&B’s in the area long before there was a vivid interest in the history of the Great War. Varlet Farm has been listed in the top 10 of European B&B ‘s in the trip advisor 2011 ranking\n– became a qualified battlefield guide in 2004\n– one of the founding members of the Passchendaele Society 1917\, a charity organisation that organises commemoration events in the Salient\n– thriving force behind the commemorations events to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele\n– worked a battlefield guide for the NZ embassy on Anzac Day in from 2004 till 2009\n– lectured to groups from all over the world\, coming to Varlet Farm : these groups vary from students\, army cadets\, army officers\, bomb disposal squads to adults with a strong interest in the history of the Great War.\n– established contact between the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 and the 48th Highlander Regimental Museum in Toronto\n– lectured at the WFA seminar in Victoria\, Vancouver Island\, in March 2011\n– carried out research work for the Passchendaele Memorial Museum 1917 at the National Archives in Kew\n– represented the community of Zonnebeke at the inauguration of a new WWI memorial in Essex on November 4th\, 2011.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/life-on-the-battlefieldsa%c2%b6-more-than-90-years-on/
LOCATION:Oakleigh Bowling Club\, corner of Drummond and Logie Streets\, Oakleigh\, 3166\, Australia
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