Directing Thesis: Far Away
Student Event
Directing Thesis: Far Away
Directed by current student Sam Gibbs, Far Away is a thriller about the end of the world and the dark deeds that bring it about.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Flexible Performance Space
March 30, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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Featured Cast

Rebecca Tyree
Adult Joan
Tiera Lopper
Young Joan
Charlotte Righetti
Harper
Daw''ud Yasin Muhammed-Spaulding
Todd

Creative Team

Sam Gibbs
Director
Andrew Schwartz
Assistant Director
Caryl Churchill
Playwright

Location

Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY

About The Performance

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.

Please note that this play contains descriptions of violence, torture, and mass death.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Image: Production artwork for Far Away