Goodfellow: Anatomy of The Gun | 1:45pm

Goodfellow: Anatomy of The Gun

Written and Directed by Carl Heap.

BA Acting & Contemporary Theatre present this true tale of guns, guts and germs...

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Tombstone, Arizona, 1881.

A prospector strikes silver in a barren patch of Arizona desert. Scarcely two years pass and it has become the site of a boom-town – Tombstone. Already it has 67 saloons, 2 ice cream parlours, shops selling the latest fashions and a rapidly swelling population of adventurers and risk-takers: miners, prostitutes, and - amongst other professions - a dozen doctors. 

Enter the ambitious and charismatic Dr. George Goodfellow who, just days after his arrival, witnesses the shooting of the Town Sheriff – a moment which marks the start of a troubled year for Tombstone and leads inexorably to the notorious ‘Gunfight at the OK Corral’. 

This better-known story – retold as myth in many film and TV versions – takes a back seat in this play. Ours is the true story of daily life and death in a frontier town and of the pioneering surgeons kept busy pulling out the bullets. 

This is a docu-drama that sheds light on the origins of the USA’s gun disease, but tells its story with a lively theatrical mix of vaudeville, music, melodrama, lantern slides and a pair of meddlesome skeletons. 

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“He who desires to practice surgery must go to war” – Hippocrates

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