A Fortunate Life - Lotterwest Heritage Festival

Name: A Fortunate Life - Lotterwest Heritage Festival
Start: 2025-04-09T10:00:00+08:00
Location: Perth Town Hall

Schedule

Wed, 09 Apr, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC+08:00

Location

Perth Town Hall | Perth, WA

Albert Barnett (A.B.) Facey’s award-winning autobiography, A Fortunate Life, is an incredible true story of an ordinary man who lived his life with extraordinary courage, compassion, and resilience.
A Fortunate Life embraces themes that are intrinsic to our history and culture as modern Australians – resilience, fortitude, hope and integrity.
Adapted by Theatre 180’s Jenny Davis and Stuart Halusz, this unique theatrical production is a striking collaboration between stage and screen combining live performance and immersive audiovisual projections.
Suitable for years 5-12
Curriculum focus areas : Drama, HASS, English with links to General Capabilities
‘A Fortunate Life’ embraces themes that are intrinsic to our history and culture as modern Australians – resilience, fortitude, hope and integrity, bringing the beloved bushland to the big screen and placing humanity centre-stage.
As A.B. Facey’s extraordinary story unfolds, audiovisual projections and live actors evoke distinct natural environments, definitive historic events, and the daily grind of farmers, settlers and city dwellers throughout 20th Century Western Australia.
Connect with generations past and present through this incredible true story – gain insight from Facey’s experiences as a bushman, sportsman, railway ganger, a World War 1 soldier and a 20th Century family man. This is a unique opportunity to become immersed in modern history and experience the combined impact of live theatre and cinema.