Soldier Boy The Play - Hill, Anthony
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A full-length dramatisation of Hill's novel Soldier Boy about the youngest Australian Anzac. Jim Martin is just 14 when he lies about his age, enlists and dies of typhoid after just seven weeks on Gallipoli. Act One is Jim joining up. Compulsory school cadets - the outbreak of war - the emotional blackmail of his parents by threatening to run away if they don't sign a consent letter. A real threat, and like others they give way. Act Two sees Jim under fire. A torpedo attack in the troopship - andthe horrors of Gallipoli. Nowhere is safe from enemy snipers, shellfire and bombs. While a lasting…mehr

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A full-length dramatisation of Hill's novel Soldier Boy about the youngest Australian Anzac. Jim Martin is just 14 when he lies about his age, enlists and dies of typhoid after just seven weeks on Gallipoli. Act One is Jim joining up. Compulsory school cadets - the outbreak of war - the emotional blackmail of his parents by threatening to run away if they don't sign a consent letter. A real threat, and like others they give way. Act Two sees Jim under fire. A torpedo attack in the troopship - andthe horrors of Gallipoli. Nowhere is safe from enemy snipers, shellfire and bombs. While a lasting camaraderie grows between the Anzac and Turkish soldiers, all are exposed to the ravages of disease borne by flies from the filth on the battlefield. Jim keeps his promise to write home often. But tragically, he dies without receiving any letters from his family - the youngest Australian soldier to die in war. With a range of characters, the play is ideal for schools and theatre companies.
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Autorenporträt
Anthony Hill is a Melbourne-based writer of 21 books, mainly published by Penguin Random House. Born in 1942, Anthony moved with his wife Gillian to Canberra in 1972 as a journalist with the Melbourne Herald. With their daughter Jane they moved to a rural village in 1977 to run an antique shop for five years, which formed the material for Anthony's first books.Returning to Canberra in 1983, Anthony worked in local television, the public service briefly and in 1989 became a speech writer for Governor-General Bill Hayden. Following the success of The Burnt Stick and later Soldier Boy, Anthony retired in 1998 to become a full-time writer. In 2020 he and Gillian returned to Melbourne to be closer to family. Apart from novels and short stories, Anthony has written the libretti for several works by the composer Judith Clingan, and a number of plays. Soldier Boy The Play is his first play to be published.