Performance Dates
15 Oct 2004 – 23 Oct 2004October 2004
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Details
- Playwright
- based on the book by Helen Coljin
- Director
- Linda Nicholls-Gidley
AddressBuilding 25, Performance Space (168)
THRID YEAR GRADUATION PRODUCTION 2004
SONGS OF SURVIVAL directed by Linda Nicholls-Gidley
Based on an autobiographical book by Helen Colijn. The story of how women prisoners-of-war in Japanese camps used music to sustain themselves and ultimately survive.
On the 14th of August 1945 the world rejoiced as the end of hostilities was announced. Yet in a prison camp in Sumatra the internees continued their meagre existence unaware of these events. Unaware that the bombing raids that they had experienced in the days before Singapore's capitulation were mere drops in the ocean compared with the enormous weapon launched against the Japanese.
They knew not that the allies had won or that the world was once again entering peaceful times. They knew nothing of the events occuring "beyond the wire", only of their own quest for survival. Song of Survival is the story of this quest.
"After a successful tour of the Australian War Memorial recently, the cast of Song of Survival met with Dr Barbara Orchard an Australian expert on the women imprisoned in Sumatra during WW2.
Dr Orchard has met and interviewed many of these women and has a vast knowledge of the suffering they endured.
The cast now has the task of putting all that they have learned from the tour into the show...". - Linda Nicholls-Gidley.
SONGS OF SURVIVAL directed by Linda Nicholls-Gidley
Based on an autobiographical book by Helen Colijn. The story of how women prisoners-of-war in Japanese camps used music to sustain themselves and ultimately survive.
On the 14th of August 1945 the world rejoiced as the end of hostilities was announced. Yet in a prison camp in Sumatra the internees continued their meagre existence unaware of these events. Unaware that the bombing raids that they had experienced in the days before Singapore's capitulation were mere drops in the ocean compared with the enormous weapon launched against the Japanese.
They knew not that the allies had won or that the world was once again entering peaceful times. They knew nothing of the events occuring "beyond the wire", only of their own quest for survival. Song of Survival is the story of this quest.
"After a successful tour of the Australian War Memorial recently, the cast of Song of Survival met with Dr Barbara Orchard an Australian expert on the women imprisoned in Sumatra during WW2.
Dr Orchard has met and interviewed many of these women and has a vast knowledge of the suffering they endured.
The cast now has the task of putting all that they have learned from the tour into the show...". - Linda Nicholls-Gidley.
Bookings
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