R.H. THOMSON has appeared in film and theatre across Canada,
as Matthew Cuthbert in Anne with an E, in the movie Chloe directed by Atom
Egoyan, as Marshall McLuhan in The Message by Jason Sherman, and This Was the
World by Ellie Moon. As well as being an advocate for the arts, R.H. has worked
on many history and arts projects. For the First World War Centenary, he built
The World Remembers-Le Monde Se Souvient, an international commemoration
exhibit now installed at the Canadian War Museum and explorable online at
theworldremembers.org. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded
the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
In By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families, R.H.
Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a
powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his
family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly,
touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express
the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades,
memorials, and monuments. |
