Empathetic revival of Zinnie Harris’s 2000 play about a lost world and small island longings
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‘The changing tone is very engaging’: FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING – Young Vic Theatre
Malevolent forces shaping small communities is a strong premise for all kinds of drama, from the arrival of outsiders that tend to be the focus of horror to the power shifts of Pinter plays that upset the status quo with new authorities forming that overshadow the existing order. Zinnie Harris’ 2000 play Further Than the Furthest Thing combines these ideas with broader notions of industrialisation and the religious management of a community relatively untroubled by the outside world until one if its returning sons brings change.
PHOTOS: Damian Lewis & Sophie Okonedo open in Albee’s The Goat tonight
Ian Rickson’s revival of the late Edward Albee’s 2002 play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? opens tonight (5 April 2017), starring Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo. View all the production photography.
NEWS: Jason Hughes & newcomer Archie Madekwe join The Goat cast
Jason Hughes and newcomer Archie Madekwe join Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo in Ian Rickson’s West End revival of Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, opening in April.