Dead Youth, or, The Leaks

In this farce set on a hijacked containership on its way to Magnetic Island, Julian Assange attempts to “reboot” a troupe of Dead Youth—teenagers from all over the globe who have died in violent circumstances from sweatshop labor to environmental poisoning to war—but must grapple with two other would-be hijackers: a young Somali pirate and a female Antoine de St-Exupéry. Described by its author as a “badly-wired allegory,” Dead Youth, or, the Leaks brings to manic light the veiled violence that makes life in capitalism possible.

Winner of the 2013 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers