Description |
ix, 30 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Series |
Current theatre series |
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Current theatre series.
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Summary |
Capture the Flag is a one-act play set in 1945. Three young boys hide in a Berlin drain as the last hours of the war rages above them. The rules of their favourite war-game have been changed and now the bullets are real. Two of them fight for supremacy trying to be the men they aren't yet. The third, an even younger boy, just wants to get home to his mother. His incomplete indoctrination and the closing threat of the Russians force these two Hitler Youth boys to face what we already know: The war has been lost. Adults have betrayed them. It's all been in vain. Secrets are forced out as the boys try to comprehend their options and we come to realise just how young they are. They share guilt, giggles, longings and frights. The arrival of a teenage girl running from the occupiers jolts the final reality into them. All four find themsleves on different paths, some inevitable, others by choice |
Subject |
Hitler-Jugend -- Drama.
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Australian drama -- 21st century.
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War stories, Australian.
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Youth and war -- Drama.
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Youth and war -- Germany -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
War drama.
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Drama.
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LC no. |
2012452623 |
ISBN |
0868199370 (paperback) |
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9780868199375 (paperback) |
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