Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other
line. - Village Voice
A masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today.
Churchill is that rare dramatist who imagines different forms and even
invented languages every time out. -Chicago Tribune
Deeply disturbing. Far Away has the picturesque form and gentle
rhythms of a fairy tale told at bedtime. But it also finds a grating
alarm in traditional sounds of comfort, from the lapping of a stream and
the lilt of a lullaby to the hesitating confidences exchanged by a boy
and girl falling in love... I can think of no contemporary playwright
who combines such scope of imagination and depth of purpose. -Ben
Brantley, New York Times
Far Away opens on a girl questioning her aunt about having seen her
uncle hitting people with an iron bar. Several years later, the whole
world is at war - including birds and animals. The girl has returned to
her aunt to take refuge and begins to describe 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..."
Caryl Churchill has written for the stage, television and radio. A
renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include Cloud Nine, Top
Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and
Information, Mad Forest and A Number. In 2002, she received the Obie
Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American
Theater Hall of Fame.
