Far Away (2006)
Director’s Notes
Lindsey Gates
photo: Molly Decoudreaux
I am fascinated by our ability to make sense of things – to create mental maps that allow us to competently navigate the world. How exactly is it that we learn to interpret reality? When do the monsters under the bed become just shadows? Found treasure, just someone else's buried picnic trash? And perhaps with greater consequence, how does state violence become coded differently than street violence? How does political corruption become an acceptable norm?
When and why do we stop questioning the way things are?
In Far Away, Caryl Churchill, known for her highly imaginative worlds, uses both imagery and the play's very structure to force the audience to reflect on this question. Like lobsters in boiling water, we don't notice the incremental changes around us. By juxtaposing three moments in the life of our protagonist, Joan, the play exposes how incremental changes add up, and asks us just how far away this other world really is.
Hannah Rose Kornfeld
and Valerie Weak photo: Erin Schultz
- Cast and Crew
- Molly Aaronson-Gelb Director
- Michael Barrett Austin Todd
- Sibani Michael Bose Stage Manager
- Jarrod Fischer Light Design
- Lindsay Gates Joan
- Logan Granger Set Design
- Ellen Kamoe Producer
- Hannah Kornfeld Young Joan
- Dina Maccabee Composer and Sound Design
- Ashley Simmons Assistant Director
- Erin Schultz Costume Design
- Jonathan Spector Producer & Production Manager
- Valerie Weak Harper
- Details
- Far Away
- by Caryl Churchill
- Directed by Molly Aaronson-Gelb
- Oct. 13 – Nov. 4 at The Exit Theatre