PREAMBLE:
Author: Caryl Churchill who was born in London (1938-). Dramatist of the end of the twentieth century who contributed to England was one of the best dramatic centre of all the word starting from 1945.
Title: `Far Away´.
Subtitle: It is a play in three acts. ( The second act consists in six scenes).
Publishing: `Publication of this play does not necessarily indicate its availability for amateur performance´.
Year of publication: 2000
Place of publication: London.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
The characters are three:
Joan: A girl, who is living at the moment at her aunt´ s house. Several years later she is a young girl who makes hats.
Harper: She is Joan´ s aunt.
Todd: He is a young man, who works making hats with Joan.
PLOT:
Joan stays at her aunt Harper ´s home. She talks with Harper about she has been her uncle to commit a crime but Harper explains to her she has not reason because her uncle only is helping some people who have the necessity of escaping. Several years later she is a hats maker and meets Todd in this job. Several years later Todd is at Harper ´s home and he is talking with her waiting for Joan.
SCENERY:
In the first act, the story takes place in Joan ´s aunt house; the second act takes place in the workbench of Joan and Todd because they are hat makers; finally, in the third act the story takes place at Harper ´s house again.
TIME:
Now, that is the present ( at the end of the twentieth century).
In the first act, the story takes place at night; the second act takes place several years later; in the same act there are six scenes: the first one takes place in a day, the second scene takes place the next day, the third, the following day the, the fourth, also, the next day, the same with the fifth, and, finally, the sixth scene takes place in a new week;
the third act takes place several years later and daytime.
PERSONAL OPINION:
I like this play because it is a intriguing story, but I don’t find it the sense. I don’t understand his meaning because I don’t know what ´s the relation between one act and the others. I think I don’t understand it, perhaps, because the story doesn’t connected between one act and another, specially, between the first one and the third act. Also, the end of the play is, in my opinion, a little odd and I don’t understand the conversation between Harper and Todd, because I don’t know what ´s the relation of this conversation with the first act. In spite of all this, this play is an interesting story, which I have had to read it twice.
