Academic, writer and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father, who visited Bougainville during the 1960s working to help heal dozens of crippled children.

Created and performed by Dr Paul Dwyer and directed by David Williams, The Bougainville Photoplay Project presents audiences with a unique theatre experience, blurring the lines between an academic lecture and a play. This 80-minute project is thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking and unlike anything you would have seen in theatre.

Paul Dwyer’s father, Dr Allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, visited Bougainville in the 1960s, healing crippled children. Like father like son, Paul Dwyer has been making his own journeys to Bougainville since 2004, researching the post-war reconciliation process and the impact of the encounters between his father and the Bougainvillean children. Dwyer's stories and performance moves through various mediums such as slides, documents, historical film clips, diary entries, and a mock-surgery, amounting to the show's climax in which Paul attempts to meet some of his father's former patients, which is truly wonderful.

The Bougainville Photoplay Project is a co-production between Version 1.0 and Tamarama Rock Surfers is a hard-hitting but wonderfully hopeful piece of political theatre. Moving from a lecture to vivid re-enactment by the always engaging, energetic and passionate Paul Dwyer, the Bougainville Photoplay is a unique experience not to be missed.