Far Away by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe
August 31st - September 22nd 2012
Far Away was made possible through support from the following:
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Starring (In order of appearance) Patricia A. Hunter as Harper* Annabel Cantor as Young Joan Beth Thompson as Older Joan John San Nicolas as Todd* *Member or Actors Equity Association In the first scene of Far Away, a girl (young Joan) is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar. By the end of the play, several years later, the whole world is at war- including birds and animals. The girl has returned to her aunt’s and is taking refuge. She describes her journey. ‘There were piles of bodies and if you stopped to find out there was one killed by coffee or one killed by pins, they were killed by heroin, petrol, chainsaws, hairspray, bleach, foxgloves, the smell of smoke was where we were burning the grass that wouldn’t serve…’ |
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