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Naked Island
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1961
| Russell Braddon, great-grandson of Sir Edward Braddon, Premier of Tasmania, sailed with the doomed 8th Australian Division to Malaya in 1941. Following a brief training, these troops were put against the highly organized attacking Japanese armies, to suffer annihilating defeat. On his 21st birthday, he was captured and thrown into a ditch for execution, only to be saved by a diversion. During the next four years, until the end of 1945, he was to suffer appallingly. That the unquenchable heart of man can withstand the far limits of agony and privation and emerge with spirits unconquered is evident in this epic story embodied in Braddon’s book, The Naked Island upon which this play is based. |
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