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Peter Finlay and Joanne Davis as Frank and Trish in “Foxholes of the Mind”.
WITH the recent announcement of a Royal Commission into veterans’ suicide, the message of a play coming to the
Courtyard Studio this week seems apposite.
“Foxholes of the Mind”, by Bernard Clancy, premiered at La Mama theatre in Melbourne back in 2010 to packed houses and toured regional Victoria in 2016.
Now it’s on tour in an initiative funded by the Australian government Department of Social Services and was setting up in the Courtyard Studio today (May 11)
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With elements of tragedy, a complex plot and black humour, the play holds a message of hope and strength which the playwright believes can assist veterans and family members to step forward and seek help as it looks into the lives of Vietnam veteran Frank and his wife Trish, 30 years after the war.