PACT Presents: Papers from the Citadel

By Adeeb Razzouk

A character awakes in a surreal room where he is stripped of everything he was attached to. The room has no doors, only a single window. The person calls the room the Citadel. The world is in constant darkness; it is always night.

Papers from the Citade l began as a series of writings made when Adeeb left Syria for Lebanon during the civil war. In solitude, as he wrote more and more, the Citadel and its characters became his inner sanctum.

Joined by collaborators Andrea Lim, Ali Rezvni and Amy Morris, the multimedia Papers of the Citadel conjures images out of words, shapes out of sounds, and light out of darkness to tell a story at once personal and universal about the power of an inner creative world in times of loss and hardship.

"From the imaginal abyss he conjures with light and music, with his body and his face... There is nothing else like it on this planet." - Audience member

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Show dates & times

Thursday 20th March, 7:30 pm (Opening Night)

Friday 21st March, 7:30 pm (Auslan Interpreted performance)
Includes post-show artists talk .

Saturday 22nd March, 2:00 pm (Matinee)

Saturday 22nd March, 7:30 pm

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Content Warnings

Haze

Flashing/Strobing light

Themes of isolation and dealing with trauma

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The Artists

Written and Performed by Adeeb Razzouk

Producer and Production Manager Amy Morris

Sound Design & Music Composition by Andrea Lim

Projection Design & Cinematography by Ali Rezvni

Lighting Design by Theo Carroll

Costume Design by Sam Hernandez

Mask Design by Ross Brown

Additional Music by Nour Salman & Adeeb Razzouk

Dramaturgy by Paul Dwyer

Lighting Mentor Fausto Brusomolino

Performance Coach Janie Gibson

Script Editor Michela Carattini

Poster artwork by Safdar Ahmed

Special thanks to Claudia Chidiac, Alissar Chidiac, Martin del Amo, Barbara Campbell and Richard Manner (Theatre and Performance Studies, USyd), Harry Klein and Toby Petch (Sydney College of the Arts, USyd).

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Access

AUSLAN interpreted performance – Friday 21st March, 7:30 pm.

Audio Described performance available – please get in touch with us for more information.

PACT is an accessible venue, with level access throughout the public areas of the building and non-gendered, ambulant and wheelchair accessible toilets.There is accessible (non-dedicated) street parking on Railway Parade.The nearest accessible train stations are Erskineville (5 minutes) and Newtown (15 minutes).

PACT supports the Companion Card Program. Contact us directly during office hours for assistance with your booking; the companion ticket must be booked at the same time as the purchased ticket.

We encourage you to contact us at info@pact.net.au with any access questions and to discuss your requirements with us.

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Papers from the Citadelis presented by PACT with support from

Development of the work was also supported by

University of Sydney

CuriousWorks

SSI (Settlement Service International)