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A new play about Julian Assange, Truth is an intelligent, thoughtful and unsettling work

Truth, the new play from writer-director pair Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee, dives headfirst into the contentious world of Julian Assange. It offers us a nuanced portrait of the WikiLeaks founder who transformed from hacker wunderkind to global lightning rod.

The Conversation · Feb 20, 2025

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

Five actors play the WikiLeaks founder – but instead of exploring different, contradictory parts of his character, they form a united chorus of complaint

The Guardian - AU · Feb 19, 2025

Julian Assange: new play about WikiLeaks founder’s life to debut in 2025

Truth, by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius, will feature multiple actors playing Assange as it probes questions about whistleblowers

The Guardian - AU · Oct 9, 2024

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My Sister Jill: Patricia Cornelius' new play is a blistering post-war social and cultural commentary

Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between director Susie Dee and playwright Patricia Cornelius, My Sister Jill is a contemporary homage to George Johnston’s classic 1964 Australian novel My Brother Jack.

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2023

My Sister Jill review – Patricia Cornelius’s family drama cries out for social realism

The playwright’s stage adaptation of her semi-autobiographical novel explores Australia’s changing attitude to war, but it never rises above the schematic

The Guardian - AU · Sep 29, 2023

Do Not Go Gentle review – a profound exploration of ageing and dementia

Patricia Cornelius’s play co-opts Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the south pole to follow a band of adventurers who are actually in an aged care home

The Guardian - AU · May 28, 2023

‘Urgent listening is needed’: Australian theatre asks artists to advise them on diversity

In industry first, Melbourne Theatre Company has formed an advisory council of artists including Zoë Coombs Marr, Tony Briggs and Patricia Cornelius

The Guardian - AU · Feb 27, 2023

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Morning mail: private schools had ‘extra $10bn funding’, 1.6% of rentals affordable on minimum wage, Putin warns west of retaliation

Thursday: Public schools underfunded by at least $6.5bn a year while non-government schools received transitional funding, report shows. Plus: Emmanuel Macron dodges bag of tomatoes in Paris

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2022

Susie Dee on a lifetime spent staging the revolution: ‘Theatre can shift consciousness’

The Australian director has presented her vital works around the globe for four decades, but she always comes back to Melbourne

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2022

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