Imagine if your destiny was to abandon your country, many of your family, all that was precious, in order to save your life and the lives of those you love.

Elections have been fought over them, the newspapers are full them. We know them by their labels - asylum seekers, detainees, and queue jumpers. We know of their attempts to gain our attention - suicides, hunger strikes, breakouts. But what do we know of their humanity, the situations they have fled or the ordeals they continue to endure?

Some Australians have reached out and made contact by writing to detainees. The letters they have received in response make up the basis of the script of CITIZEN X.

These letters from Woomera, Curtin, Port Hedland and Villawood are vulnerable, confused, poetic, sometimes angry, sometimes resigned but always very human.

"This is a striking and heart rending play that gives a voice to the voiceless" - Sydney Morning Herald

PRESENTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH SIDETRACK PERFORMANCE GROUP

Previews October 30, 31 Opening November 1 Performance November 4 to 15 Venue Victoria Hall

Directed By Angela Chaplin Lighting Design By James Savage

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