FAR AWAY
by CARYL CHURCHILL
"If it was a party, why was there so much blood?"
In a house far away, a child wakes to the sound of screaming. Who will tell her what is really going on? And where will the discoveries she makes that night take her in the years to come?
A playwright of genuine audacity and assurance; Caryl Churchill is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost innovators of theatrical language. Far Away is her masterwork, presenting audiences with a profound and unexpected vision of a world sliding into chaos. Arguably her most famous play, Far Away delivers a dazzling satire on the crude, but increasingly popular idea that there is a binary divide between virtue and iniquity; between good and evil; and most pertinent to the times we find ourselves in, between an 'us' and a 'them'.
Featuring an astonishing cast led by acclaimed Australian actress Alison Whyte, Far Away marks Patalog Theatre's highly anticipated return to the Melbourne Independent Stage and fortyfivedownstairs following series of critical successes; namely Punk Rock (2019) at fortyfivedownstairs and Tusk Tusk (2019) at St Martins Youth Arts Centre.
Far Away was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Sloane Square, London on the 24th of November, 2000.
at fortyfivedownstairs from the 13th - 30th of July, 2023
GUY WEBSTER, Limelight Magazine
BEN BROOKER, The Australian Book Review
★★★★"It is a joy to see Churchill's work performed with such tenacity by a company whose work continues to rise in quality"
DARBY TURNBULL, Theatre Matters
ALISON WHYTE
as Harper
NORAY HOSNY
as Young Joan
SAVANNA WEGMAN
Associate Designer
GEORGIE BRIGHT
Production Stage Manager
BEN WALTER
Producer
LUCY ANSELL
as Joan
CASSANDRA FUMI
Director
RACHEL LEWINDON
Sound Designer / Composer
FINN MCLEISH
Assistant Stage Manager
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THALÍA DUDEK
Producer
DARCY KENT
as Todd
KUDA MAPEZA
Assistant Director
RACHEL BURKE
Lighting Designer
LUCI WATTS
Rehearsal Stage Manager
CARYL CHURCHILL
Playwright
DARCY STERLING-COX
as Young Joan
DANN BARBER
Designer
SPENCER HERD
Lighting Technical Assistant
CHARLOTTE MEAGHER
Design Secondment
PARADE PERFORMERS
Coco McGaig, Hannah Sims, Jessica Pascoe, Luke Slade, Mitchell McLaren, Marcus Leder, Patrick Leong and Rosa Leonardi.
HAT CONSULTANT and JOAN'S HAT CONSTRUCTED by
Lauren Ritchie
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY by
Cameron Grant (@parenthesy)
THANK YOU to
Redstitch Actor's Theatre, Jonathan Feder, Aisha Aidara, Paula Arundell, Axel Duffy, Jem Wray, Yvonne Virsik, Tom Jones, Mark Wilson, Tenna Mynott-Rudland, Sam Ryan, Natasha Herbert, Connor Sweeney, Michael Cassel, Simon Walter, Paddy Walter, Karen Walter, Bro Barber, Janne Barber, John Collopy, Cameron Lukey, Philippa Jelbart, fortyfivedownstairs staff and volunteers, St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Plakkit and the Australian Cultural Fund.
THANK YOU to our generous donors (some of whom elected to remain anonymous):
Maureen Pollard, Axel Duffy, Aisha Aidara, Danny Ball, Ash Mckenzie, Matt Holly, Jane Akhurst, Karl Richmond, Lucy Rossen, Markella Kavenagh, Gordon Miller, Nick Evans, Tom Royce-Hampton, Blanche Clark, Tony Berry, Deb Lawrence, Cazz Bainbridge, Mark Griffiths, Connor Sweeney, Tom Jones, Michael Whalley, Jim and Sara Shaw, Gillian Cosgriff, the Old Wesley Collegians Association and Michael Cassel Group.
Your support, donations and generosity made this project possible.