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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/
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SUMMARY:New Directions in War and History: Debating military history
DESCRIPTION:The Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (ANU) and the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (UNSW Canberra) are pleased to announce an international conference that explores the future of military history\, to be held at the Australian National University 4 – 5 February 2016.The conference aims to explore the unique position occupied by military history between the public\, scholarly and professional arenas. Historians of all fields have long mined the wealth of sources that war generates\, and the history of war remains popular at an undergraduate level. In Australia the centenary of the First World War has generated substantial public interest\, while the Anzac myth is central to national commemoration of war and a signifier of national identity. Yet\, military history arguably remains on the margin of the historical discipline in Australia\, following an international trend in which the field has been considered to be traditional and conservative. \nThis conference aims to re-consider military and naval history as a genre of history\, while also providing a forum for discussing new and innovative approaches in the field. In doing so\, paper proposals that explore the limits of military history\, its controversies and omissions\, its utility and successes are encouraged. The conference theme\, ‘New directions in war and history’\, is deliberately broad so as to generate a discussion between Australian and international scholars who examine conflict through a range of cultural\, social\, economic and political history lenses and those scholars situated within the more traditional military history but who are exploring it in innovative ways. \nThe Conference Dinner will be held on Thursday 4 February at $70 per person. If you would like to attend please register on the registration page. \nLink to the payment for the Conference dinner is here РConference Dinner Payment \nPlease register here
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/new-directions-in-war-and-history-debating-military-history/
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