Mud and Blood

Play by: Meg McNena

 

 

Mud and Blood - WWI Play in Ballarat about Pompey Elliott 

Departs Woodmans Hill Campus approx. 11:30am for 12.30pm performance.

Students must bring own Myki card with credit for local bus travel.

Ballarat, where local WWI hero Pompey Elliott was schooled, stages the premiere of Mud and Blood, a compelling play by Meg McNena, directed powerfully by Alice Bishop. Set 1914-1921 in battle and at home, Pompey inspires as husband, father, brother, general, Anzac veteran, leader. He and a soldier's mother deal with his vow to look after his boys in war as if they were his own. Potent themes of family, duty, loyalty, trauma, betrayal, legacy and grief vividly unfold during world-changing times