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The Faraway Nearby
The Faraway Nearby
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Author: John Murrell Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 59 Pub. Date: 1996 ISBN-10: 921368569 ISBN-13: 9780921368564 Cast Size: 1 woman, 1 man
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About
the Play:
Winner of the 1996 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
The Faraway Nearby is a full-length comedic drama by John
Murrell. Georgia O'Keeffe resigns herself to living alone on a
sun-baked ranch, working on her stark, hypnotic paintings of flowers,
cattle skulls, New Mexico desert and sky until she meets a stranger.
The Faraway Nearby explores the relationship between the
enigmatic American painter and feminist icon Georgia O'Keeffe and Juan
Hamilton, the young man who became her friend and confidant late in
her life.
The Faraway Nearby charts the relationship between the
famous and famously reclusive artist Georgia O'Keefe and Juan
Hamilton, who became her friend and soulmate in the 1970s, after the
death of husband photographer Alfred Stieglitz, as she worked in the
American Southwest. Georgia O'Keeffe flourished in the desert
solitude where her creativity and vision thrived and was challenged
by its dangerous energies, its desolate and hard beauty. But she
resigns herself to an old age spent in the auburn and tawny light of
her beloved Faraway mountains without the company of others until a
stranger enters her life. Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman,
befriends the elderly O'Keeffe, becoming the eyes for the
almost-blind artist, and the cushion between her and the outside
world. Hamilton remained O'Keeffe's companion for over a decade, and
it is in the complexities of this friendship that John Murrell
explores the uncompromising nature of the artist in this elegant and
moving portrayal.
The Faraway Nearby began life as John Murrell's
first original radio drama that aired on CBC in 1993. The stage
version premiered in 1994 at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska.
It premiered in Canada in 1995 at The Belfry Theatre in Victoria and
The Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and won Murrell his third Chalmers
new play award in 1996.
Cast: 1 woman, 1 man
What people say:
"The writing is John
Murrell at the top of his form, which is very high indeed.
Tremendous stuff." — CBC Radio
"This is a beautiful play,
richly imagined and surely the greatest achievement yet for Calgary
author John Murrell. The Faraway
Nearby ... is a feast of sensitive writing, eloquent
without being dense or metaphorical and frequently reaching genuinely
poetic levels." — The Toronto Star
About the Playwright:
John Murrell (1945-2019) is one of Canada's best known
international playwrights. His dramas focus on real people and
cultural icons. His plays have been translated into 15 languages and
produced in more than 35 countries around the world. He headed the
Banff Playwright's Colony and the Theatre Section of the Canada
Council, was Associate Director of the Stratford Festival and
Artistic Director of the Banff Centre for the Arts, and is a multiple
Chalmers Award winner. For his enormous contributions to the arts in
his adopted province and country, the Texas-born Murrell received the
Alberta Order of Excellence and was appointed an Officer of the Order
of Canada. |
Edmond Rostand, Translated by John Murrell
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