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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:Australia’s Gifted Lost Generation of World War I
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr Ross McMullin\nRoss McMullin’s latest book\, Farewell\, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation\,  contains extended biographies of ten extraordinary but long forgotten  men whose loss was devastating to the nation as well as to their  families. \nDr McMullin’s illustrated presentation will examine the remarkable stories he has retrieved. \nCost: Members Free \n$10.00 Non-Members \nFor Australia\, a new nation with a relatively small population\, the   death of 60\,000 soldiers during the Great War was calamitous. As a   result\, Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have   tended to focus\, not surprisingly\, on the collective impact of the   numbing number of losses. \nThat there must have been exceptional individuals among them has been   implicitly understood\, but these special Australians are unknown  today.  Ross McMullin’s latest book\, Farewell\, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation\,   contains extended biographies of ten extraordinary but long forgotten   men whose loss was devastating to the nation as well as to their   families. \nDr McMullin’s illustrated presentation will examine the remarkable stories he has retrieved. \nGeoff McCrae\, the book’s first biography\, was a budding architect   from Melbourne’s best-known creative dynasty who combined an endearing   personality with his family’s flair for writing and drawing. \nThere is also an internationally acclaimed medical researcher; a   Western Australian Rhodes scholar assured of a shining future in the law   and/or politics; a popular farmer who became the inspiration for the   celebrated film Gallipoli; a military officer described by his   brigadier as potentially an Australian Kitchener; an engineer who   excelled during Mawson’s Antarctic mission; a rising Labor star; a   talented barrister with a vivid personality; a Tasmanian footballer who   dazzled at the highest level; and a visionary vigneron from South   Australia.Historian and biographer Ross McMullin has written extensively   about Australia in World War I and Australian political history. \nDr McMullin’s biography Pompey Elliott won awards for biography and literature\, and Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius was shortlisted for the National Biography Award.He wrote the ALP centenary history The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party 1891-1991\, and also So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World’s First National Labour Government. His latest book\, Farewell\, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation\, is a multi-biography about Australians of exceptional promise who died in the Great War.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/australiaaos-gifted-lost-generation-of-world-war-i/
LOCATION:The Royal Historical Society of Victoria\, 239 A’Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, 3000\, Australia
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