The Guardian | Ben Doherty: Nazanin Sahamizadeh says she wants to bring production to Australia to help world hear ‘the voices of refugees’

A Tehran playwright wants to bring her production, Manus, to Australia to help the outside world hear “the voices of refugees” held on the remote island.

Nazanin Sahamizadeh’s play follows the lives of seven Iranian men who flee – by various means – from Iran, seeking protection and freedom, only to wind up in the offshore detention centre run by Australia on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. The play centres around their time on the island and their struggle to cope with the violence, indignities and privation of their indefinite detention, and the uncertainty over their futures.

The seven-man production is in the middle of a two-month run at the Qashqai Hall of Tehran’s City Theatre complex and Sahamizadeh hopes to soon take it further afield.

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