This summer, version 1.0 will take over Belvoir St Theatre with The Bougainville Photoplay Project; a project which shares version 1.0's founder and CEO David Williams' interest in creating collaborative and investigative performances that blend documentary evidence relating to significant social and political issues with multimedia elements, to make entertaining and accessible theatre.

In The Bougainville Photoplay Project academic, writer and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father, Dr Allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, who visited Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) during the 1960s working to help heal dozens of crippled children. His stories are entwined with the larger narrative of Australia's colonial enterprise in the years following: the opening of the giant Panguna copper mine, environmental devastation, Bougainvillean resistance and a war that cost the lives of up to 20,000 people.

On stage, Paul Dwyer will recount how he has made his own journeys to Bougainville since 2004, conducting research on the post-war reconciliation process and picking up the threads of those encounters between his father and the Bougainvillean children he once operated on.

Dwyer's monologue performance combines field notes, oral history, a crash course in pidgin English, reconstructions of complex surgical procedures, letters, diaries as well as slides, super-8 footage and film installations managed by video artist Sean Bacon, who was last seen working his magic on the Belvoir St stage for Benedict Andrew's production of Measure for Measure earlier this year.

The Bougainville Photoplay Project is showing at the Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St, Surrey Hills). It previews on Tuesday, November 9 and costs $35. The season runs November 9-28, with tickets $57 full price and $47 for seniors and groups of 10+. For those students out there, rush along on Tuesday at 6.30pm and Saturday 2pm for tickets at $25. To make a booking, phone (02) 9699 3444 or visit the Belvoir website.