The historic Callan Park Hospital for the Insane was New South Wales’s largest insane asylum. Nigel ends up institutionalized there at the very end of the play, after the Australian government and media ignore his eloquent writings on the plight of Indigenous soldiers.
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Callan Park Term Timeline in Black Diggers
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Act Two
At the Callan Park psychiatric hospital in 1951, a nurse wheels a sleeping man past Nigel and asks if...
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