Further than the Furthest Thing - Softcover

Harris, Zinnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571205445 ISBN 13: 9780571205448

Publisher: Faber, 2000

Synopsis

On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic, secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond. By the author of 'By Many Wounds'.

About this title

Book Description:

Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis.

About the Author:

Zinnie Harris's plays include the multi-award-winning Further than the Furthest Thing (National Theatre/Tron Theatre; winner of the 1999 Peggy Ramsay Award, 2001 John Whiting Award, Edinburgh Fringe First Award), How to Hold Your Breath (Royal Court Theatre; joint winner of the Berwin Lee Award), The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland; joint winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award), Nightingale and Chase (Royal Court Theatre), Midwinter, Solstice (both RSC), Fall (Traverse Theatre/RSC), By Many Wounds (Hampstead Theatre) and the trilogy This Restless House (Citizens Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland), based on Aeschylus' Oresteia. Also, Ibsen's A Doll's House for the Donmar Warehouse, Strindberg's Miss Julie for the National Theatre of Scotland and Webster's The Duchess (of Malfi) (Royal Lyceum Theatre). Zinnie received an Arts Foundation Fellowship for playwriting, and was Writer in Residence at the RSC, 2000-2001. She is Professor of Playwriting and Screenwriting at St Andrews University, and was the Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre from 2015-2018.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0571205445
• ISBN 13: 9780571205448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192