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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Tim Byrne

Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance

The actors stand at five desks, each bearing a large computer
Truth, a play about Julian Assange written by Patricia Cornelius and directed by Susie Dee, at the Malthouse in Melbourne. Photograph: Pia Johnson

The playwright Patricia Cornelius and the director Susie Dee have been in a collaborative creative partnership for decades, producing some of the most searing and politically provocative works of theatre Australia has seen.

You might think a new play about Julian Assange and the vagaries of global geopolitics would inspire them to new heights. But, while there are flashes of brilliance throughout, Truth fails as an act of agitprop and is hard going – and faintly dispiriting – as an act of drama.

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