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'Patient 12 is set in an office in a Melbourne military hospital, in the years immediately following World War I. The play examines a neglected period of Australia's history through the prism of the kith and kin of those who went to war and either failed to return, or came back physically and/or emotionally scarred.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Epigraph:
Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride
'Their name liveth forever,' the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might he Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
–Siegfried Sassoon
- 'On Passing the new Menin Gate'
Production Details
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First reading at La Mama Theatre, Melbourne on 3 December 2011.
First produced by La Mama Theatre Melbourne, 23 April 2014.
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