A play depicting life for detainees in offshore detention opens at the Adelaide Festival, after months spent trying to bring the work to Australia.
"I believe that the journalism language isn't strong enough to describe the life on Manus and the suffering in a place like Manus prison and Nauru," he said.
"That's why I always try to create a new language, take this issue to different places like galleries and museums and cinema, literature and in this work a play and photography. "In artistic work, people deeply feel the suffering of refugees on Manus and Nauru so that's why I think this work is very important.
"People are able to see the actors on the stage … the audience are able to see the faces of refugees on the stage and that is very important I think."Sahamizadeh said the importance of taking her play to Australian audiences could not be overstated.
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