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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:19700101T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20180109T210000
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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:ACT
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20151101T210000
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SUMMARY:Protector at Rabaul
DESCRIPTION:One hundred years ago Australia suffered its first casualties of World War 1. Not on a remote Turkish peninsula\, but much closer to home in what was then called German New Guinea.\nAustralia‚Äôs naval commanders were deeply worried by German cruisers north of Australia\, but the capture of German wireless telegraph stations remained a priority for the British Admiralty. Australia responded\, recruiting 500 naval reservists and 1000 volunteer infantry to form the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF). \nAt dawn on 11 September 1914\, small parties of naval reservists landed at Rabaul\, New Britain to seize one of the stations. It was Australia‚Äôs first land operation of World War I. Two men were killed during the action‚Äî the first Australian casualties of what became a very long and bloody war. \nThis exhibit explores the role of South Australia’s former Colonial Naval Ship Protector in this first phase of World War 1. Protector escorted the submarines AE1 and AE2 to Rabaul and guarded the harbour. It captured a German steamship Madang and a contingent of Germans on land.  Objects on display include German possessions souvenired by Australians at Rabaul and the diary of Protector’s wireless operator recording the dramatic sequence of events and the mysterious loss of AE1. A cutting edge installation developed with the Centre for Visual Technologies (University of Adelaide) uses historic photographs to create interactive 3D models of the ship. \nProtector at Rabaul is the first phase of a major exhibition to be installed in 2015 exploring the ship’s role in World War1 and the experience of South Australians in the naval theatre of war.  We would love to hear from any South Australians with ancestors who served on Protector or were involved with Navy during this time.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/protector-at-rabaul/
LOCATION:SA Maritime Museum\, 119 Lipson Street\, Port Adelaide\, 5015\, Australia
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