Lithgow’s Blast Furnace was a fitting backdrop for Lithgow City Band’s photo shoot last Saturday to promote their up-coming production, ‘1918 – Back from the Brink’.
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The play tells a story of love, sacrifice, and salvation – of ordinary lives in extraordinary times and features a cast of local performers and music of the time performed by Lithgow City Band.
It includes Australian composer Ian Munro’s stand alone piece, ‘The Lads From Lithgow’, a musical score for brass which serves as an emotional backdrop to the action on stage.
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While there are similarities to the previous production, ‘1918 – Back from the Brink’ involves the lives of different characters, events and themes. The production pays tribute to all those who served then and since but the band also wanted to honour the memory of Lithgow City Band members who served in the war as bandsmen stretcher-bearers.
Their roles and war-time duties presented them with different, perhaps less well-known war-time experiences but nonetheless just as horrific as any soldier who served. The Centenary of the Armistice is an opportunity to acknowledge this page of our history.
There will be only three performances of ‘1918 – Back from the Brink’, which will be staged in the Union Theatre, Bridge Street, Lithgow on Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 (matinee and evening).
Tickets are available for purchase at High Street Music.