Salonica
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| Venue | Circa Two, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Date | 15 February 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opening Date | 15 February 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Date | 17 February 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Part of a Tour | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | An original theatre production exploring a friendship across cultures against the back drop of World War 1. Performed in New Zealand Sign Language, English and Serbian.
In 1916 a great multi-national mass of humanity descended on the ancient city of Salonica. Refugees and soldiers created a vast tented city. Hospital ships lay off in the harbour, as a wall of barbed wire was erected. In the lull in the fighting between Christmas 1916 and Easter 1917, two soldiers strike up an unlikely friendship: a Serbian soldier fresh from mountain combat and a Kiwi sapper, survivor of Gallipoli, who has |
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| Description Source | Website | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deaf / Deaf theatre
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| Subjects |
Friendship
Gallipoli World War 1 |
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| Text Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Production Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data Set | Theatre Aotearoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 208895 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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