war.“I’ve shot cattle and children in Ethiopia. I’ve gassed mixed troopsof Spanish, computer programmers and dogs. I’ve torn starlings apart with my bare hands… I could go on all day doing that, it was better than sex.” - Todd. The characters within Churchill’s script appear almost quite normal at the beginning, in regards to the very start of the play where the initial conversation between Joan and Harper, Joan’s aunt, takes place. Harper can be seen to be very protective of Joan, and how much of the truth she is being exposed to, with the continuous number of explanations she gives to Joan about what she ‘saw’ her uncle doing. If one were to look at what these characters are saying, one might be able to look deep into the eerie truth behind their actions. It’s important to note the way in which Todd describes his destructive behaviour as being ‘better than sex’. One could come to the conclusion that in the world of Far Away, the violence that has ensued as a result of the war, has become a replacement to an intimate and powerful exchange of emotions. This can be used as an example to show how Churchill’s script has turned things around for the human race, animal kingdom and Mother Nature in such a way, as to affect the way in which regular theatre might be approached through the Daniel MoscovitchCaryl Churchill3acting and production process.“Caryl Churchill’s chilling vision of the future brilliantlydirected by Stephen Daldry.” (Review of Far Away) Blue Kettle is the story of a disturbed and insecure individual called Derek who preys on old women making claim to being the son they never knew. The language that Caryl Churchill adopts in this piece is very simple and clear from the start, and is conventionally banal. Eventually the language being adopted is broken down, deconstructed to an exchange of words that include ‘blu...
