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

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the subject of a new play by the leading Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius, which will make its world premiere in Melbourne next year.

Truth, which uses moments from Assange’s life to probe questions around freedom of information and the silencing of whistleblowers, spans his years as a teenage hacker in Melbourne, the formation of WikiLeaks and his nearly 14 years of prison, embassy confinement and house arrest in the UK – which ended in June, when he entered a plea bargain with the US over espionage charges and returned to Australia a free man.