As protestors against the war in Vietnam march in Australian streets, it is the end of the school year and boys in a Catholic school prepare for their final exams. The cadets plan thier regimental dinner and the Colonel will attend. Dominic Connolly, a talented, passionate and committed opponent of the war chooses this time to stage a personal demonstration. His action leads him to the school’s infirmary and in this place of healing he must ‘confront and reconcile his impulse for freedom with the need for responsibility, to choose a life of conformity or rebellion and weigh the consequences’. Bob Evans, Sydney Morning Herald

‘The play deals with a time so important that many believe it to have been the most significant epochal change of the twentieth century… It affected its generation at a deeply personal level, not simply because of youth and the threat of conscription and the new media-induced closeness of the war, but because the moral and political issues seemed so immediate and yet so difficult to fight for.’—John McCallum, Australian