Equity members light up the screens in When We Go To War

Equity members Shavaughn Ruakere, Ido Drent, Andrew Grainger, Sophia Huybens, Sylvia Rands and Gareth Williams have lead roles in the new TVNZ drama series, When We Go To War. The series is on TV ONE now on Sundays at 9:30pm or watch it on TVNZ OnDemand. Focussing on the impact the war has on a middle New Zealand, Pakeha family and a Maori brother and sister, this spectacular six-hour television drama cuts between life at home, Gallipoli and Egypt. The series begins in a time of optimism and hope, on the eve of war. New Zealand has one of the highest living standards in the world, is part of the mighty British Empire and few can foresee the horrors soon to come. As the series - and the war - progress, the changing lives of those back home are contrasted with the experiences of New Zealand soldiers in the trenches and the lives of nurses in makeshift hospitals in Egypt.

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