The Bougainville Photoplay Project
September 26th 2009 01:34
version 1.0 in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers and Paul Dwyer presents:
The Bougainville Photoplay Project
A slide show with fireside chat
Devised and performed by Paul Dwyer
Directed by David Williams
Video artist Sean Bacon
Technical production Russell Emerson
“... Dwyer weaves personal stories, historical documentary and ethnographic academic research into a performance that is never predictable, unfolding intimate reflections that quietly impart their deeper connections...” RealTime
Following on from the success of the provocative and unsettling This Kind of Ruckus, version 1.0 in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers presents Paul Dwyer’s The Bougainville Photoplay Project – an intimate performance that highlights the moral and ethical commitments binding Australians and the people of Bougainville (PNG) in the wake of a brutal civil war.
Academic, writer and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father, Dr Allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, who visited Bougainville during the 1960s, working pro bono and helping to heal dozens of crippled children. These stories become entwined with the larger narrative of Australia’s colonial enterprise in the years following: the opening of the giant Panguna copper mine, environmental devastation and Bougainvillean resistance, a war that cost the lives of up to 20,000 people. Since 2004, Paul Dwyer has been making his own journeys to Bougainville, conducting research on the post-war reconciliation process and picking up the threads of those encounters between his father and the Bougainvillean children he once operated on.
“Jack shows me the ankle my father repaired almost 40 years ago. There’s another, deeper scar further up the leg about which I ask. ‘PNG Defence Force,’ he explains, then pauses… ‘Australian bullets.’”
A monologue performance which deftly combines field notes, oral history, a crash course in pidgin English, reconstructions of complex surgical procedures, letters, diaries, slides, Super-8 film and video installation, this is politics and performance at its most personal.
www.versiononepointzero.com
14–31 Oct, 2009, 8pm Tue–Sat, 5pm Sunday, Preview 13 Oct, 2009 8pm
Bookings: rocksurfers.org or 1300 438 849Preview/Cheap Tuesday: $17 or $25 Beer, Laksa and Show.
Every other day: Concession $21, Adult $29, and $35 Beer, Laksa and Show
The TRS Old Fitzroy Theatre, Corner of Cathedral and Dowling Streets, Woolloomooloo
The Bougainville Photoplay Project
A slide show with fireside chat
Devised and performed by Paul Dwyer
Directed by David Williams
Video artist Sean Bacon
Technical production Russell Emerson
“... Dwyer weaves personal stories, historical documentary and ethnographic academic research into a performance that is never predictable, unfolding intimate reflections that quietly impart their deeper connections...” RealTime
Following on from the success of the provocative and unsettling This Kind of Ruckus, version 1.0 in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers presents Paul Dwyer’s The Bougainville Photoplay Project – an intimate performance that highlights the moral and ethical commitments binding Australians and the people of Bougainville (PNG) in the wake of a brutal civil war.
Academic, writer and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father, Dr Allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, who visited Bougainville during the 1960s, working pro bono and helping to heal dozens of crippled children. These stories become entwined with the larger narrative of Australia’s colonial enterprise in the years following: the opening of the giant Panguna copper mine, environmental devastation and Bougainvillean resistance, a war that cost the lives of up to 20,000 people. Since 2004, Paul Dwyer has been making his own journeys to Bougainville, conducting research on the post-war reconciliation process and picking up the threads of those encounters between his father and the Bougainvillean children he once operated on.
A monologue performance which deftly combines field notes, oral history, a crash course in pidgin English, reconstructions of complex surgical procedures, letters, diaries, slides, Super-8 film and video installation, this is politics and performance at its most personal.
www.versiononepointzero.com
14–31 Oct, 2009, 8pm Tue–Sat, 5pm Sunday, Preview 13 Oct, 2009 8pm
Bookings: rocksurfers.org or 1300 438 849Preview/Cheap Tuesday: $17 or $25 Beer, Laksa and Show.
Every other day: Concession $21, Adult $29, and $35 Beer, Laksa and Show
The TRS Old Fitzroy Theatre, Corner of Cathedral and Dowling Streets, Woolloomooloo
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