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Far away

Caryl Churchill

200144 pagesabout 1 hour
2001
first published
  • 2001Theatre Communications Group · 44 pages · ENGISBN 9781559361996
  • 2003Nick Hern BooksISBN 9781854597441
  • 2002Actes SudISBN 9782742736782

"In the first scene of Far Away, a girl 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...'"--BOOK JACKET.

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