Our Forum Theatre was born from the desire to tell the story of a controversial man - a high-tech terrorist for some, a revolutionary hero for others - and then to question what he actually represents in a much broader scale.
Both a tragic and an exemplary figure, we wanted to bring together in the same space witnesses & experts who would meet to tell the story of Julian Assange in all its complexity and confront the image we have of him with the concrete facts.
For us, this forum is a place to construct a narrative, "an institute of history(s) and documentation" to quote the words of director Milo Rau, whose work has inspired us.
At the crossroads of documentary theatre and a people's tribunal, our forum attempts to open up a public debate through a vehicle in which witnesses are invited to share their expertise and testimony with the public, who are in turns invited to participate actively in the process of rigorous investigation and evaluation of the situation.