Don Watson - The United States: Sacred and Profane
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Actors name
Chars name
Don Watson
The United States: Sacred and Profane
When
6pm - 7pm
Foyer bar open from 5pm
Where
Union Theatre
Arts and Cultural Building
The University of Melbourne
15 Monash Road, Parkville VIC 3010
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'These were indeed strange times. Yet the forces at work in them were not new. Men like Donald Trump are embedded in US history, mythology and popular culture. Rank populists, hucksters, fakers, grifters, rent-seekers, blowhards, tycoons, kleptocrats, narcissists, psychopaths and delinquents – or, from the other point of view, rugged individualists, entrepreneurs, men of vision, men of destiny, instruments of God. No diorama of mainstream American life in any era could be without them.' – Don Watson, The Shortest History of the United States of America
Join Don Watson as he traces how the central conflicts of the United States – those over freedom, race, frontiers, enterprise, religion and violence – play out through its history: a country at war with itself in the 1860s, the leader of the free world less than a hundred years later, and a nation beset by wild division and turmoil in the twenty-first century.
Featuring an introduction from Prof Michael Wesley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Culture & Engagement) at the University of Melbourne.
Tickets
General
$35
Concession
$28
Running Time
Approximately 60 minutes
Photography and Recording
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Partners
Presented in partnership with Readings
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