SHADES OF HAUNTED MELBOURNE

RHSV Officers' Mess Upstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

A special Halloween event - not to be missed!
Join historians Dr Jo Clyne and Dr David Waldron as they recount tales of haunted Melbourne through a highly original blend of historical research and magical stage illusion. 

In the Name of the Theatre now by ZOOM

RHSV Officers' Mess Upstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Her sumptuous book, In the Name of Theatre, is a kind of encyclopaedia of the Victorian stage. From the early colonial settlement when entertainment included the viewing of executions or dissections of bodies of the executed, amateur theatre has come a long way. This book is a celebration of and for theatre lovers across Victoria. It is lit by an inner passion which all of us share.

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Ross McMullin – ‘Turning Disaster into Victory: The Battle of Polygon Wood’

RHSV Officers' Mess Upstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

The battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917 is one of the AIF’s most iconic but least understood victories. It has usually been depicted as a relatively straightforward affair — the Australians advanced behind an irresistible barrage that resembled a Gippsland bushfire, and there were inevitable casualties but no major hiccups. This interpretation is fundamentally
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