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Far Away
Full-Length Play, Drama
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.
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Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
This hour long futuristic nightmare envisions a world where the promise of violence broods and nothing is to be trusteed. 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 concoct 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 even the animals are on one side or another.
Far Away must be performed on it's own, as a single evening of theatre.
Far Away must be performed on it's own, as a single evening of theatre.
Keywords
- Time Period Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
- Cautions
- Intense Adult Themes
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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Authors
Caryl Churchill
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 ...