WRITER
PATRICIA CORNELIUS
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Previews
7.30pm, Thu 13 Feb
7.30pm, Fri 14 Feb
7.30pm, Sat 15 Feb
6.30pm, Mon 17 Feb
In Season
6.30pm, Mon
7.30pm, Tue – Sat
2.00pm, Sat
Time To Talk
7.30pm, Tue 25 Feb
Melbourne, 1980s. A group of misfit teenagers break into forbidden fortresses.
The Pentagon. Stanford. NASA. There is no theft. No profits. No harm. They just want to look around. But when you’re storming castles, not everyone gets out unscathed.
Australia’s most awarded playwright, Patricia Cornelius (Who’s Afraid of the Working Class?, Do Not Go Gentle), returns with a zeitgeist-defining investigation into the price the powerful will pay to control the truth and why the children once forced to live with lies become their greatest adversaries. The ones who wanted to change the world.
This is the story of Julian Assange. Edward Snowden. Chelsea Manning. It is a story about the costs of not staying silent.
Come experience a master playwright’s undertaking of a complicated truth.
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DIRECTOR
SUSIE DEE
ENSEMBLE
EMILY HAVEA
ENSEMBLE
TOMÁŠ KANTOR
ENSEMBLE
JAMES O'CONNELL
ENSEMBLE
EVA REES
ENSEMBLE
EVA SEYMOUR
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
MATILDA WOODROOFE
Lighting Designer
Paul Jackson
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER
KELLY RYALL
VIDEO DESIGNER
MERI BLAZEVSKI
VIDEO ASSOCIATE
JUSTIN GARDAM
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
SPENCER HERD
INTIMACY COORDINATOR
BAYLEY TURNER
STAGE MANAGER
ASHLEIGH WALWYN
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
ROSEMARY OSMOND
MOVEMENT CONSULTANT
LYNDALL GRANT
SCENIC ART
PATRICK JONES
DIRECTING INTERN
KARINA WHITE
AV INTERN
AMY TODD
EVENT & TICKETING DETAILS
DURATION
81 minutes
LOCATION
CONTENT NOTES
This production contains smoke effects, loud noises and flashing lights. Nudity, explicit language, mature themes, descriptions of sexual assault, and graphic depictions of violence will be present.
Detailed content information is available on this webpage.
ACCESSIBILITY
Aural Rating: 50% – this production has both sound and visual components, but sight isn’t essential to be able to engage with the event.
Visual Rating: 50% – this production includes dialogue and background music or sounds, so Deaf and hard of hearing audiences can have some engagement with the event.
For more information about accessibility services, visit our access page.
Image credit: Shaun Gladwell A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection, 2024 © Shaun Gladwell. Courtesy of the Artist & PALAS, Sydney.