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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 1m
Caryl Churchill
Confronting our deepest fears, Caryl Churchill’s extraordinary play depicts a chilling world where everyone is at war, and not even the birds in the trees or the river below can be trusted.
This hour-long futuristic nightmare envisions a world where the promise of violence broods and nothing is to be trusted. Written by the celebrated author of Top Girls and Cloud Nine, this innovative work consists of three brief scenes. In the first, a young girl spending her first night in her new guardian’s house witnesses a bloody slaughter. Next, the girl, now grown, is spending her first day working in a hat factory. There, she and a young man create funny and elaborate hats that are to be worn for a horrific purpose. In the final scene, the boy and girl, now wed, are seeking refuge from a global conflict where even the animals are on one side or another.Far Away must be performed on its own, as a single evening of theatre.
Far Away was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London on 24 November 2000. The production transferred to the Albery Theatre in the West End on 18 January 2001. The play received its American premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop on 1 November 2002.
YOUNG JOAN - a girlHARPER - her auntTODD - a young manJOAN - the older version of the character in the first scene
A house. A hat factory. After an apocalypse.
“Ravishing and deeply disturbing.” – The New York Times
“Brilliant... this play feels more resonant than ever.” – The Guardian
“Ravishing, deeply disturbing... has the picturesque form and gentle rhythms of a fairy tale. There is an uncommon density and sureness of purpose... Each carefully chosen detail seems to vibrate with unsettled depths. And each summons anxieties both primal and mercilessly particular to the times in which we live... With each new play, Ms. Churchill seems to come up with new rhythms and language to match, in exhilarating theatrical terms, what are scarcely trivial subjects.” – The New York Times
Far Away – Donmar Warehouse
Far Away – Quantum Theatre Trailer
Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sund ...