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The Faraway Nearby
The Faraway Nearby
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Author: John Murrell Publisher: Scirocco Drama 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 comic-drama by John
Murrell. Georgia O'Keeffe resigns herself to living alone until
she meets a stranger. Explores the relationship between Georgia
O'Keeffe and Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman who befriends
her and becomes the eyes for the almost blind artist, and the cushion
between her and the outside world.
The Faraway Nearby charts the relationship between the
enigmatic American painter and feminist icon 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 premiered in 1994 at Perseverance
Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. In premiered in Canada in 1995 at The
Belfry Theatre in Victoria and The Tarragon Theatre in Toronto and
won a Chalmers Award.
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
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. He
has also written operas, and translated works by anyone from
Sophocles to Chekhov. He has headed the Banff Playwright's Colony and
the Theatre Section of the Canada Council, been 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. His plays have been
translated into 15 languages and produced in more than 35 countries
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Edmond Rostand, Translated by John Murrell
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