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keeping focused on the reasons for this project I last wrote about The Open Door in Projects. Basically, that play, in creative development, revealed itself to be 2 plays – the play of the mother, and the play of the son – Rowan. Rowan’s Story (working title) is the story…

Assembly of Elephants just produced the AWGIE-nominated My Father’s Wars… as a digitally-captured full theatrical production. My Father’s Wars began life as research through a QANZAC100 Fellowship in 2015/16. It came to life as a limited podcast series – a vivid and compelling exploration of a young man’s journey to…

We have filmed the theatre show – thank god – and I wish we’d filmed the post-show conversation… We have filmed My Father’s Wars.  We’re not nearly finished – editing is underway by our terrific videographer – but we have the footage done. Thank. God. We digitally captured the theatre…

this is the verbatim story of a WW2 Commando (they hated being called that – they were the Independent Companies!) WARNING: This article and pages it links to, and contains, descriptions and images of war and violence. Noel Anthony Carey was interviewed by Kevin Dickson in 1995 at the Twin…

We had an extraordinary night on Friday past – the public showing of My Father’s Wars – the theatre production. An audience of students, teachers, stakeholders and friends.  The final stage of a journey through different mediums, different conceptions, responding to different audiences and levels of access. And creating different…