Further Than the Furthest Thing - Softcover

Harris, Zinnie

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9780822218746: Further Than the Furthest Thing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822218747 ISBN 13: 9780822218746

Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service, 2003

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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. Further Than The Furthest Thing is a beautifully drawn story evoking the sadness and beauty of a civilisation in crisis.

Further Than The Furthest Thing premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August, 2000.

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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 This Restless House (National Theatre of Scotland/Citizens Theatre; Best New
Play, Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland, 2016). Her adaptations include Ibsen's A Doll's House for the
Donmar Warehouse and Strindberg's Miss Julie for the National Theatre of Scotland. 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 an Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre.