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COLUMBIA’S SCHOOL OF THE ARTS in NYC at the LENFEST CENTER
WRITTEN BY CARYL CHURCHILL
DIRECTED BY SAM GIBBS
LIGHTS BY ELIZABETH SCHWEITZER
COSTUMES BY MARIANNE DORADO NEEDELL
PROJECTIONS BY CLAIRE TALBOTT
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Sam Gibbs
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Far Away, a directing thesis production by current student Sam Gibbs. Far Away is a thriller about the end of the world and the dark deeds that bring it about. We watch three scenes from the life of a young woman named Joan–in the first, she’s questioning her aunt in the middle of the night about witnessing a disturbing scene in the garden shed. By the third, the whole world is at war, with ants fighting crocodiles fighting Latvian dentists. This timely, hilarious, and absurdist tragedy asks the question: what can we do to stem the rising tide of violence around us? And what dark scenes arise from just “going along with it?” Far Away is closer than we think.
COLUMBIA’S SCHOOL OF THE ARTS in NYC at the LENFEST CENTER
FAR AWAY
WRITTEN BY CARYL CHURCHILL
DIRECTED BY SAM GIBBS
LIGHTS BY ELIZABETH SCHWEITZER
COSTUMES BY MARIANNE DORADO NEEDELL
PROJECTIONS BY CLAIRE TALBOTT
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Sam Gibbs
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Far Away, a directing thesis production by current student Sam Gibbs. Far Away is a thriller about the end of the world and the dark deeds that bring it about. We watch three scenes from the life of a young woman named Joan–in the first, she’s questioning her aunt in the middle of the night about witnessing a disturbing scene in the garden shed. By the third, the whole world is at war, with ants fighting crocodiles fighting Latvian dentists. This timely, hilarious, and absurdist tragedy asks the question: what can we do to stem the rising tide of violence around us? And what dark scenes arise from just “going along with it?” Far Away is closer than we think.
