This is Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, August 1966. This is a rubber plantation called Long Tan. This is blood and mud and sweat-sodden heat. It's gunfire, mortars and pounding rain. It's 108 Australians and New Zealanders and 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers locked in a ferocious battle. For the young men fighting through the raging monsoon, it's something like the end of the world. After the battle, 17 Australians and more than 245 Vietnamese would lie dead.
Best remembered in the long running radio serial 'Berenice Beleagured', Belle Doyle also trod the boards in many of the major musicals to thrill Australian audiences in the years after the war. Now all that remains of her career are snatches of songs and a string of memories. In 'The Mourning After' Verity Laughton guides us through the tangle of Belle's reminiscences. Often humourous and always engaging, there remains, however, an underlying sadness, a regret for what might have been. (1 woman).
Playwrights' company 7-On has created No nudity, weapons or naked flames: 21 self-contained performance texts, conceived with senior school students and young actors in mind. Each monologue is accompanied by notes to help young performers understand, research, and communicate their chosen piece." - Back cover.
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